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

- Thomas Malthus

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

- Thomas Malthus

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

- Thomas Malthus

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…

- Thomas Malthus

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

- Thomas Malthus

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

- Thomas Malthus

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

- Thomas Malthus

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

- Thomas Malthus

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…

- Thomas Malthus