Quotes by : Thomas Malthus

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead....

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

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

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably....

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

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

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase....