| Malthus claimed that the planet would be unable to support more than 800 million to one billion inhabitants. |
| Indeed, the tories of that day, many of them big landowners, found an intellectual champion in one Thomas Malthus. |
| The principle that there is a perpetual tendency in the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is usually attributed to Malthus. |
| But the premonitions of Malthus, of Darwin and of the inevitable Galton, have to be reconsidered. |
| It is this way in spite of knowing that the Earth's population, as Malthus said, can't grow indefinitely. |
| Malthus noted that hunger and poverty were common in the past of human history. |
