Thomas Malthus

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. ↗

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

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

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

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

— Thomas Malthus

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