Thomas Malthus Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• 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.

  Thomas Malthus

  Successful, Government, Evil

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1989). “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

• The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

  Thomas Malthus

  Evil, Mind, Earth

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.161, eKitap Projesi

• The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

  Thomas Malthus

  Evil, Temptation, Virtue

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.6, University of Michigan Press

• To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, People, Evil

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

• Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

  Thomas Malthus

  Evil, Despair, World

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.167, eKitap Projesi

• The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

  Thomas Malthus

  Mean, Evil, Balance

  "Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Robert Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On The Progress of Wealth", Section X, p. 430, 1836.

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