The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his — Thomas Robert Malthus
The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all — Thomas Robert Malthus
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. — Thomas Robert Malthus
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Robert Malthus
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies — Thomas Robert Malthus
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. — Thomas Robert Malthus
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. — Thomas Robert Malthus
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed — Thomas Robert Malthus
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. — Thomas Robert Malthus
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge — Thomas Robert Malthus
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be — Thomas Robert Malthus
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention — Thomas Robert Malthus
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. — Thomas Robert Malthus
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Robert Malthus
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. — Thomas Robert Malthus
The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same — Thomas Robert Malthus
The words of fire that from his pen were flung upon the fervid page, still move. — Thomas Robert Malthus
