Population Quotes

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

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

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

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

Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.