Quote

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Thomas Malthus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Unhappiness
Necessarily
Country
Great
Kind
Emigration
Deserted
Implies

More quotes by Thomas Malthus

Image
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
Image
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
Thomas Malthus
Image
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
Image
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
Image
Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Thomas Malthus
Image
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?
Thomas Malthus
Image
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.
Thomas Malthus
Image
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.
Thomas Malthus
Image
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
Thomas Malthus
Image
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
Image
Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.
Thomas Malthus
Image
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Thomas Malthus
Image
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Thomas Malthus
Image
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.
Thomas Malthus