Quotes from Thomas Malthus

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

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.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

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

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

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

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.

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

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.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

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.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

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.