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Increases Quotes by Thomas Malthus
- 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…
- 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…
- [P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most…
- Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
- The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are…
- Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
More Increases Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million. — Joe Baca
- Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. — Francis Bacon
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
- There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases… — Zygmunt Bauman
- Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human… — Alex Campbell