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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
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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.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
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Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
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The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
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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.
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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
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It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
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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.
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
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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.
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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.
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Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
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