Quote by Thomas Malthus
"We cannot expect that the vices and miseries which have been produced by the causes we are examining should be suddenly removed by the destruction of their causes."
More from Thomas Malthus
"The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race."
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
"The means of subsistence increase in an arithmetical ratio."
"That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence."