Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. – Thomas Malthus
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. – Thomas Malthus

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. – Thomas Malthus
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. – Thomas Malthus
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
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. – Thomas Malthus
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