Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Robert Malthus (English Political Economist)

Thomas Malthus (1766–1834,) fully Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist, demographer, and clergyman. He is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humanity is impossible without strict limitations on reproduction. This ideology is commonly referred to as Malthusianism.

Born in Rookery, near Dorking, Surrey, Malthus studied many subjects at Jesus College-Cambridge. He earned a Master of Arts in 1791, became a fellow of Jesus College in 1793, and took holy orders in 1797.

In An Essay on the Principles of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society (1798,) Malthus contended that without the practice of ‘moral restraint,’ the population tends to increase at a greater rate than its means to sustain it, resulting in the population checks of war, famine, and epidemic. Malthus understandably failed to foresee the agricultural revolution or the advent of widespread contraception. Yet, his views continue to be influential among economists and policymakers with the world beset by rapid population growth, war, and famine.

Malthus also wrote The Present High Price of Provisions (1800,) Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws (1814,) and Principles of Political Economy (1820.)

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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Robert Malthus

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.
Thomas Robert Malthus
Topics: Sex

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Thomas Robert Malthus
Topics: Poverty, The Poor

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