Population Quotes · Page 20

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

— Ernst Mayr

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

— Margaret Sanger

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

— Charles Dickens

India has a population of over 135 crore people. It's a staggering number and it's impossible to please everyone.

— Aditya Narayan

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health…

— Cynthia Nixon

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

— Catherine Hardwicke

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

— Alfred W. Crosby

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

— Vladimir Putin

Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal…

— Viktor Orban

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what…

— Benton MacKaye

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

— Julie Bishop

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because…

— Thomas Malthus

But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who…

— Patrick Cockburn

The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the…

— Gene Baur

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an…

— Ellen Willis

The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't…

— Bill Pullman

Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one…

— Michael Mullen

Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit.…

— Andre Pratte

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority…

— Ai-jen Poo

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve…

— Kathryn Stockett

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same…

— Samuel Beckett

The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying,…

— Guillermo del Toro

Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get…

— L. Ron Hubbard

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will…

— W. H. Auden

How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

— Lubna Olayan

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

— Bobby Scott

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.

— John Warner

Europe's demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

— Kim Campbell

Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

— Sharon Lawrence

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

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

— Havelock Ellis

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

— Salman Rushdie

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from…

— Mark Weisbrot

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

— Bob Barker

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die…

— Mark Kurlansky

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

— Paul Scott

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

— Joe Baca

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

— Gabriel Luna