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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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Mathematician
Scientist
Sociologist
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Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
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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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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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Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
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.
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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
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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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
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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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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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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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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!
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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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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.
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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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Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.
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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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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 most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
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
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
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