1. Thomas Robert Malthus
The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was a British scholar who did influential work in political economy and demography. Malthus used his middle name Robert, though work after his lifetime often refers to him as Thomas Malthus.Malthus came to more..

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Thomas Robert Malthus:The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas. #Truth

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Thomas Robert Malthus: 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. #Sex

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Thomas Robert Malthus: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. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be. #Heroes and Heroism

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Thomas Robert Malthus: Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. #Poverty and The Poor

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Thomas Robert Malthus:The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population. #Death and Dying

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Thomas Robert Malthus:The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. #Money

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Thomas Robert Malthus: Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. #Population

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Thomas Robert Malthus:The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments. #Government

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Thomas Robert Malthus:The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals, is the means of his support, is the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. #Power

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Thomas Robert Malthus:The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. #Change

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