Quote

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

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
Moon
Vary
Force
Squares
Earth
Round
Varies
Rounds
Inverse
Kept
Ratio
Distance
Distances
Merely
Ratios
Sun
Orbit

More quotes by Thomas Malthus

Image
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
Image
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
Image
If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!
Thomas Malthus
Image
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.
Thomas Malthus
Image
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Thomas Malthus
Image
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
Thomas Malthus
Image
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
Image
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
Image
Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife
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
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
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.
Thomas Malthus
Image
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
Thomas Malthus
Image
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
Image
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
Thomas Malthus
Image
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
Thomas Malthus