The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all… — Thomas Malthus Attributes Copy Share Image
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to… — Thomas Malthus Attachment Copy Share Image
The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of… — Thomas Malthus Branches Copy Share Image
It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor… — Thomas Malthus Believe Copy Share Image
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd… — Thomas Malthus Cleanliness Copy Share Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature… — Thomas Malthus Adversity Copy Share Image
Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the… — Thomas Malthus Corn Copy Share Image
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of… — Thomas Malthus Certain Copy Share Image
The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the… — Thomas Malthus Breasts Copy Share Image
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower… — Thomas Malthus Doubt Copy Share Image
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world… — Thomas Malthus Age Copy Share Image
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a… — Thomas Malthus Distance Copy Share Image
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus Captivating Copy Share Image
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which… — Thomas Malthus Attention Copy Share Image
“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these… — Thomas Malthus Human life Copy Share Image
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works… — Thomas Malthus Benefits Copy Share Image
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. — Thomas Malthus Friendship Copy Share Image
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state. — Thomas Malthus Men Copy Share Image
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy… — Thomas Malthus Blank Copy Share Image
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly… — Thomas Malthus Animals Copy Share Image
It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter… — Thomas Malthus Branches Copy Share Image
In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only… — Thomas Malthus Britain Copy Share Image
