Thomas Malthus

Quotes by Thomas Malthus

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Political economist · British · 1766–1834

British political economist (1766–1834)

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

“Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.”

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

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

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

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“In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hithert...”
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Great Simple Human

“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 Live Earth

“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”
— Thomas Malthus
Man Earth Population

“The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.”
— Thomas Malthus
Vice Without Misery

“I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.”
— Thomas Malthus
Experience Truth

“The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.”
— Thomas Malthus
Great Changes Opinion

“Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.”
— Thomas Malthus
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