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Thomas Malthus
Age: 68 †
Born: 1766
Born: February 14
Died: 1834
Died: December 23
Anglican Priest
Demographer
Economist
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Sociologist
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Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
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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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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.
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To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.
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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.
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It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.
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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.
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Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
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The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
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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.
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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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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 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?
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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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Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
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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.
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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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Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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The perpetual struggle for room and food.
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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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