Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.
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
May
Harm
Human
Views
Humans
Economy
Applicable
Good
Knowledge
Essentially
Life
Common
Practicals
Business
Branches
Science
Practical
Political
False
More quotes by Thomas Malthus
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Thomas Malthus
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.
Thomas Malthus
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
Thomas Malthus
It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.
Thomas Malthus
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
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
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 world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
Thomas Malthus
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
Thomas Malthus
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
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
Thomas Malthus
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
Thomas Malthus
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Thomas Malthus
Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife
Thomas Malthus
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
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
Thomas Malthus
