Quotes by : Thomas Robert Malthus

as long as agreat number of those impressions which form character, like the nicemotions of the arm,....

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible....

Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical....

The real perfectibility of man may be illustrated, as I havementioned before, by the perfectibility of....

It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement

The lower classes of people in Europe may at some future periodbe much better instructed than they are....

I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the....