Balance Quote by Thomas Malthus

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds…

— Thomas Malthus

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,…

— Thomas Malthus

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for…

— Thomas Malthus

Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to…

— Thomas Malthus

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

— Thomas Malthus

If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to…

— Thomas Malthus

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

— Thomas Malthus

[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…

— Thomas Malthus

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

— Thomas Malthus

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

— Thomas Malthus

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms…

— Thomas Malthus

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be…

— Thomas Malthus