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Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.
— Thomas Malthus
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
— Thomas Malthus
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
— Thomas Malthus
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
— Thomas Malthus
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
— Thomas Malthus
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.
— Thomas Malthus
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
— Thomas Malthus
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
— Thomas Malthus
any great interference with the affairs of other people is a species of tyranny,
— Thomas Robert Malthus
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
— Thomas Malthus
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
— Thomas Malthus
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
— Thomas Malthus
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
— Thomas Malthus
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
— Thomas Malthus
man as he really is, inert, sluggish, and averse from labour, unless compelled by necessity
— Thomas Robert Malthus
everything is appropriated?
— Thomas Robert Malthus
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
— Thomas Malthus
It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible of
improvement — Thomas Robert Malthus
improvement — Thomas Robert Malthus
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
— Thomas Malthus
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
— Thomas Malthus
The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.
— Thomas Malthus
Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.
— A.E. Samaan
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
— Thomas Malthus
The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.
— Thomas Robert Malthus
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
— Thomas Malthus
Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith? ...
— Thomas Malthus
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
— Thomas Robert Malthus
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
— Thomas Malthus
Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife
— Thomas Malthus