Acquaintance Quote by Thomas Malthus

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

— Thomas Malthus

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

— Thomas Malthus

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence…

— Thomas Malthus

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

— Thomas Malthus

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

— Thomas Malthus

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

— Charles Darwin

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical…

— Friedrich List

[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

“Thomas Malthus, was one of the first to analyze the relations between population growth and available resources. At the end of the eighteenth century,…

— David Christian

“The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some…

— Anonymous

We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a…

— Jeremy Grantham

“Overpopulation has a ceiling: earth’s total surface area divided by the dimensions of one economy seat. One more baby is born and hello cannibalism.”

— Walter Kirn