Robert Malthus Quotes

#1. The mathematics of Malthus? A quick Internet search led him to information about a prominent nineteenth-century English mathematician and demographist named Thomas Robert Malthus, who had famously predicted an eventual global collapse due to overpopulation.

Dan Brown

#2. 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.

Thomas Robert Malthus

#3. 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

#4. Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It's built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don't even see. It's a messy business, bringing peace into the world.

Bono

#5. Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

William Hazlitt

#6. It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible of
improvement

Thomas Robert Malthus

#7. Without prosperity the fullness of human happiness is not possible.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. man as he really is, inert, sluggish, and averse from labour, unless compelled by necessity

Thomas Robert Malthus

#9. Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

Jackie Gleason

#10. nothing is so easy as to find fault with human institutions; nothing so difficult as to suggest adequate practical improvements.

Thomas Robert Malthus

#11. everything is appropriated?

Thomas Robert Malthus

#12. The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.

Thomas Robert Malthus

#13. 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

#14. I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Dan Deacon

#15. I am such a girly girl, and I love not playing it safe. I'm so new to this world, so it's fun to establish myself as a fashionista.

Kelsea Ballerini

#16. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Robert Malthus

#17. What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.

Richard Wright

#18. His heart, the war.

Her face, the battlefield.

Rick Yancey

#19. any great interference with the affairs of other people is a species of tyranny,

Thomas Robert Malthus

#20. 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

#21. It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you. I had wasted so much of my life eating stupid old, already-ground peanut butter. So, yeah, I highly recommend a little nosiness once in a while.

Mindy Kaling

#22. I remember only what interests me.

Georgette Heyer

#23. 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

#24. The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.

Scott McCallum

#25. When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#26. The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Arthur Smith