“Refusing to have a child is the highest degree of rebellion, after suicide; one of the best uses of the mind; and… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox — David Foreman Copy Share Image
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
“Dwayne! Don't be ridiculous. Guy's don't share their girlfriends.' Why not?' Because they don't. Men are instinctually competitive. It's so there'll be… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“overpopulation problem as one good reason we should reconsider our willy-nilly tendency to procreate. That made sense. If you want to go… — Mara Altman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
Each year, millions of animals are euthanized at local shelters because of overpopulation. Almost half of the animals brought into these shelters… — Jud Tylor Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste.… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say,… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone… — John Guillebaud Copy Share Image