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
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. — Thomas Malthus Philosophy Copy Share Image
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus Earth Copy Share Image
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that… — Thomas Malthus Extinction Copy Share Image
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. — Thomas Malthus 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 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 Copy Share Image
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country.… — Thomas Malthus Consequence 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 Copy Share Image
In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working… — Thomas Malthus Adversity Copy Share Image
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Character 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 first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole… — Thomas Malthus Ale 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 friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. — Thomas Malthus 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 world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. — Thomas Malthus Environmental Copy Share Image
Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of… — Thomas Malthus Agriculture Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under… — Thomas Malthus 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
It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual… — Thomas Malthus 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
The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the… — Thomas Malthus Discoveries Copy Share Image
The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be… — Thomas Malthus 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
It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter… — Thomas Malthus 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 Copy Share Image
If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be… — Thomas Malthus Blind Copy Share Image
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