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No form of society could prevent constant misery for many, or for everyone if all were equal
Drawn from what Thomas Robert Malthus said
What Thomas Robert Malthus actually said
- Thomas Robert Malthus English economist and cleric (1766 to 1834)
But though the rich by unfair combinations contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor, yet no possible form of society could prevent the almost constant action of misery upon a great part of mankind, if in a state of inequality, and upon all, if all were equal.
Where this was said
↗An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798, first edition)gutenberg.org
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