It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Thomas MalthusThe most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.
Thomas MalthusIt has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
Thomas MalthusThe immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.
Thomas MalthusNo limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Thomas MalthusThe greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.
Thomas Malthus