Population Quotes
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.
The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.
You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.
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.
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.
In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.
Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that number down - don't tell me, tell the other idiots!
It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.
There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality.
Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.
Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it
Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.
Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark.
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
They banned DDT, not because it was necessarily bad, but because it was a great way to help the population control.
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
