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Thomas Malthus Quotes

English - Economist | February 13, 1766 - December 23, 1834

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

Power Man Earth Greater Population

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Power Without Vice Superior Misery

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Population Ratio Increases

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.

Effort People Population Even Means

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

Environmental Years Population Every

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

Rich Poor Unfair Season Distress

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

Limits Earth Whatever Forever May

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Live Food Man Earth Know Will

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Truth Philosophy Will Experiment

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

Attention Improve Little Theory Own

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Man Me Will Become Him Tell

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Great Simple Equality Manners Virtue

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