Population Quotes

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death.

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

We can't expect to effectively move forward with half the population carrying sandbags.

This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all

Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

We need diversity in our population to make it work.

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.