The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils t… - Thomas Robert Malthus

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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.

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About Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus (13 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English demographer and political economist best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth.

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Native Name: Thomas Malthus
Alternative Names: Thomas R. Malthus
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If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.

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