Thomas Malthus Population Quotations

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.

Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.

Capitals accumulate faster than population

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.