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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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Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
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The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
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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
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.
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Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas Malthus
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
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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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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.
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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.
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The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
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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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The perpetual struggle for room and food.
Thomas Malthus
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
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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.
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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
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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The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
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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