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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Malthus
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
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