Population Quotes · Page 15

Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet

— John Guillebaud

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent…

— Karin Slaughter

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

— Noam Chomsky

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

— Stewart Udall

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

— Emanuel Celler

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

— Phil Harding

They banned DDT, not because it was necessarily bad, but because it was a great way to help the population control.

— Kent Hovind

I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies.

— Abhijit Banerjee

Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming…

— Noam Chomsky

You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is…

— Ted Nugent

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend…

— Candace Bushnell

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and…

— Geoff Mulgan

Landowners, farmers and gamekeepers, though they comprise a small minority of the rural population, claim to speak for everyone, and dismiss those…

— George Monbiot

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as…

— Aly Khan

Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement.…

— Andrew Weil

I've had my own moments in front of designers when I've actually said, 'You know, there's a market here for expanding your…

— Tim Gunn

Once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal health care, much of the population loses…

— Gregory S. Paul

You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they…

— Pauline Marois

The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,…

— John Maynard Keynes

I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space…

— Judy Baca

I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows…

— Eduardo Galeano

Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore…

— Barack Obama

I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed…

— Norman Borlaug

I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she…

— Frances Moore Lappé

The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful…

— Alan Bersin

Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand…

— Ronald Reagan

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without…

— Thomas Jefferson

After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating…

— Lawrence Millman

Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of…

— David Holmgren

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified

— Edward Heath

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

— Richard Benjamin

If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.

— Narendra Modi

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

— Vandana Shiva

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

— Garrett Hardin

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay…

— Anonymous

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

— Alice Walker

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

— Zig Ziglar