Thomas Robert Malthus Quotes

• The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

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• A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is.

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• The perpetual struggle for room and food.

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• All the immediate checks to population—seem to be resolvable into moral restraint, vice and misery.

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

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• The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

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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 histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• The words of fire that from his pen Were flung upon the fervid page, Still move, still shake the hearts of men, Amid a cold and coward age.

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

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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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• The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

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

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Thomas Robert Malthus (24)

Birth:	13th February, 1766
Death:	23rd December, 1834
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist, Politician, Scholar

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