Malthus Quotes
5 quotes by 4 authors
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence,…
— John F. Kennedy
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As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a…
— Carl Sagan
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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot…
— Herman E. Daly
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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One…
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Malthus Quotes
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