Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or…

What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world…

— Paul Virilio

I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can…

— Noreena Hertz

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

— Vera Brittain

He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things…

— Anonymous

“Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost to a…

— Roger Zelazny

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Julian Simon

“Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we…

— Alan Weisman

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total…

— Norman Borlaug

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to…

— Anonymous

“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”

— Gabor Maté

To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We…

— Isaac Asimov

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live…

— Mira Grant

By the year 2040, the world's population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will be up…

— Rex Tillerson

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

— Carlo Ratti