History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock. - Robert Heilbroner

David Ricardo saw that the escalator worked with different effects on different classes, that some rode triumphantly to the top, while others were carried up a few steps and then kicked back down to the bottom.

The total amount of electric power generated by India would not suffice to light up New York City.

But while Ricardo, the economist, walked like a god (although he was a modest and retiring person), Malthus was relegated to a lower status.