Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

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.

If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!