The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
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Reason interrupts man's career and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of subsistence.Thomas Malthus
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
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If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil.
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The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
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