Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state..

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

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

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..

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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