List of Thomas Malthus Quotes

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Thomas Malthus
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If i saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, i should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. a juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what i conceived it to be.
Philosophy Eye Wine
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of england have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.
Real Law Doubt
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
Struggle Cooking Emigration
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.
Encouragement Giving Balance
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.
Class Important Demand
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Ratios Increase Subsistence
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Eight House Employment
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.
Distance Moon Squares
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.
Sex Moving Taken
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.
Philosophy Fall Agency
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.
Class Eugenics Euthanasia
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Philosophy Economy Theory
  • Born: February 14, 1766
  • Died: December 23, 1834
  • Occupation: Scholar
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