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Subsistence Quotes by Thomas Malthus
- 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…
- The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
- 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…
- [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…
- 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…
More Subsistence Quotes
- All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the… — George Berkeley
- Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty… — Norman Borlaug
- This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. — William Ames
- I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the… — John F. Kennedy
- Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose… — Karl Kraus
- If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of… — Abraham Lincoln
- It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are… — Pope John Paul II