Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife — Thomas Malthus Beats Copy Share Image
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of… — Thomas Malthus Animated Copy Share Image
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without… — Thomas Malthus Accord Copy Share Image
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or… — Thomas Malthus Bears Copy Share Image
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty… — Thomas Malthus Acting Copy Share Image
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital… — Thomas Malthus Demand Copy Share Image
The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to… — Thomas Malthus Balance Copy Share Image
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion… — Thomas Malthus Able Copy Share Image
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. — Thomas Malthus Higher Copy Share Image
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. — Thomas Malthus Activity Copy Share Image
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. — Thomas Malthus Misery Copy Share Image
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. — Thomas Malthus Feathers Copy Share Image
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. — Thomas Malthus Attention Copy Share Image
