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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

~Thomas Malthus

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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

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

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

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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

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The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: February 13th, 1766

Died: December 23rd, 1834

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