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

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

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

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.

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

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.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

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

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

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.