Population Quotes

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world's population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels.

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.

Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, my perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

I realized I need a certain kind of chemistry and a certain kind of look to be into someone, and like 1 percent of the population has it.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.