Quotes by Thomas Malthus

Thomas Malthus

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. … [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

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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.

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Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

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I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

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If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.

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If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance.

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Quotes by Thomas Malthus

Thomas Malthus

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. … [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.

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