If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches! - Thomas Robert Malthus

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

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.