98 Quotes by Thomas Malthus

The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue,but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from aconviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundicedeye or an inherent spleen of disposition.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

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

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