All Thomas Malthus Quotes
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Thomas Malthus
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas Malthus
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The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
Thomas Malthus
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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
Thomas Malthus
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Thomas Malthus
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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
Thomas Malthus
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The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
Thomas Malthus
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It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Thomas Malthus
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Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Thomas Malthus
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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus
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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus
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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
Thomas Malthus
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