"No limits whatever are placed to the productions……" — Thomas Malthus

"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."

— Thomas Malthus

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33 Quotes by Thomas Malthus

Thomas Malthus has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by…
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is…
Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a…
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the…
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed…
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers…
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by…
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are…

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More Earth Quotes

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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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