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

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity..

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 vis….

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

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more pe….

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization..

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

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

Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of ce….

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife.

If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause ….

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

The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and t….

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers….

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils t….

Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of ….

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 hav….

Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may be compared to a gre….

The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of ….

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great….

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one..