Thomas Malthus Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live wi...

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