Quote by Thomas Malthus
"When we look at the state of the world, we cannot but perceive that the great object of nature is the improvement of the human race."
"When we look at the state of the world, we cannot but perceive that the great object of nature is the improvement of the human race."
"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."