"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all…" — Thomas Malthus

"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."

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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…
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.
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are…
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

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