Population Quotes

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"

Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.

Demographics don't lie, economies don't lie. When the median age of your population is twenty-four-years-old and a quarter of the working population's unemployed - this is not a recipe for success.

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our senior population - especially the oldest and sickest.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state.

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.

The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.

As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.