98 Quotes by Thomas Malthus

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

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Reason interrupts man's career and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of subsistence.

Wherever there is liberty, the power of increase is exerted, and the superabundant effects are repressed afterwards by want of room and nourishment.

The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher classes.

The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.

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.