Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

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 occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

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.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.