Constant Quote by Thomas Malthus

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

— Confucius

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

— Daniel Quinn

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…

— Adam Smith

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity…

— Thomas Malthus

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the…

— Sharon Gannon

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

— Charles Darwin

I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.

— Henry Rollins

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a…

— Vandana Shiva

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

— Thomas Malthus

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as…

— Julian Simon

People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone…

— Alex Tabarrok

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period…

— Thomas Malthus