The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.
Thomas MalthusIf 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!
Thomas MalthusThe power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas MalthusThe germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
Thomas Malthus