"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every……" — Thomas Malthus
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
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33 Quotes by Thomas Malthus
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The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by…
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is…
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a…
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The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the…
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed…
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers…
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by…
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The perpetual struggle for room and food.
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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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 Doubling Quotes
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth…
— David R. Brower
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We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on…
— Barack Obama
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Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
— Paul Ryan
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It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some…
— Barack Obama
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It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that…
— Ray Kurzweil
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In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next…
— Peter Thiel
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The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily.…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
— Samuel Rogers
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MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
— David Rockefeller
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