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
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
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
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
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
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
Thomas Malthus
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Thomas Malthus
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.
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
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
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Thomas Malthus
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
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
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 great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
Thomas Malthus
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Thomas Malthus
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
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
Thomas Malthus