All Thomas Malthus Quotes
- The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population,… Acting
- Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. Appear
- The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing. Baleful
- Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may… Afford
- The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,… Acknowledged
- No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the… Account
- Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of… Acquaintance
- The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Earth
- Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. Advanced
- The perpetual struggle for room and food. Cooking
- The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. All
- It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in… Appeared
- A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. Country
- A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. Cannot Properly
- The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. Animal
- The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. Among
- The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape… Death
- The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise have lain for… Adequate
- The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. All
- It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place… All
- In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much… Any
- I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. Able
- It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. Acknowledged
- The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. Class
- The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language… Age