Population Quotes

Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet

It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

Regardless of what ideological twist people may have, about 90 to 95 percent of our population [in Puerto Rico] really values our citizenship. It's of utmost importance.

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.

I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.

Religion is god's population-control tool

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

Hitler was about population control.

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

I am god...to the dislexic segment of the population.

Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.

We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.

A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.