Top 12 Thomas Robert Malthus Quotes
#1. One principal reason is that the histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher classes. We have but few accounts that can be depended upon of the manners and customs of that part of mankind where these retrograde and progressive movements chiefly take place.
Thomas Robert Malthus
#2. There can be little doubt that the equalization of property which we have supposed, added to the circumstance of the labour of the whole community being directed chiefly to agriculture, would tend greatly to augment the produce of the country.
Thomas Robert Malthus
#3. any great interference with the affairs of other people is a species of tyranny,
Thomas Robert Malthus
#5. The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue,
but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from a
conviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundiced
eye or an inherent spleen of disposition.
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#6. The constancy of the laws of nature, or the certainty with which we may expect the same effects from the same causes, is the foundation of the faculty of reason.
Thomas Robert Malthus
#7. The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.
Thomas Robert Malthus
#9. nothing is so easy as to find fault with human institutions; nothing so difficult as to suggest adequate practical improvements.
Thomas Robert Malthus
#10. man as he really is, inert, sluggish, and averse from labour, unless compelled by necessity
Thomas Robert Malthus
#12. spend all the wages they earn and enjoy themselves while they can appears to be evident from the number of families that, upon the failure of any great manufactory, immediately fall upon the parish,
Thomas Robert Malthus
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