Quote by Thomas Malthus
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years

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

Other quotes by Thomas Malthus

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

Category:
power
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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus

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Equality
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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. – Thomas Malthus

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Food
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Other Quotes from
environmental
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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism – about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. – Danny Glover

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environmental

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future. – Bernard Sanders

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environmental

We wont have a society if we destroy the environment. – Margaret Mead

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environmental

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. – David R. Brower

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environmental

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I dont think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. – John Le Carre

Category:
Blasphemy

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas

Category:
alone

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. – John Dryden

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Fanaticism

If you dont trust the pilot, dont go. – Denzel Washington

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Trust