Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Thomas Malthus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas Malthus
Age: 68 †
Born: 1766
Born: February 14
Died: 1834
Died: December 23
Anglican Priest
Demographer
Economist
Essayist
Mathematician
Scientist
Sociologist
Statistician
Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
Individual
Disgraceful
May
Instances
Hard
Dependent
Appear
Held
Poverty
Cases
Ought
More quotes by Thomas Malthus
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.
Thomas Malthus
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Thomas Malthus
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
Thomas Malthus
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.
Thomas Malthus
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
Thomas Malthus
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.
Thomas Malthus
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.
Thomas Malthus
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
Thomas Malthus
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.
Thomas Malthus
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
Thomas Malthus
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Thomas Malthus
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Thomas Malthus
It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.
Thomas Malthus
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.
Thomas Malthus
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.
Thomas Malthus
The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
Thomas Malthus