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

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

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

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

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

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

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

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

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

Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.

For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.