Population Quotes · Page 22

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

— Gregory Maguire

“We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The population of Seoul is decreasing but a large population is not a key element of an advanced city.

— Park Won-soon

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

— John Stossel

“Fill this city of mine with people as, You filled the river with fishes O Lord.”

— Quli Qutub Shah

“The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

— Gore Vidal

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

— Kailash Satyarthi

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

— Alan Weisman

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as…

— S. Jay Olshansky

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule…

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee

I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and…

— Caitlin Moran

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon…

— Kenny Chesney

For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around…

— Gail Collins

We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a…

— Barbara Holland

We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today,…

— Sebastiao Salgado

...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the…

— Fanny Kemble

The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans…

— Danny Glover

Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has…

— Margaret Atwood

As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future…

— Charles Landry

So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this…

— Herbert Croly

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade,…

— Ian Somerhalder

A racist will be a racist and football is a cross-section of the male population of society.

— David James

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

— Peter Greenaway

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

— Bob Beauprez

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

— George F. Kennan

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

— Mary McGrory

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

— Mark Steyn

Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

— Sharon Gannon

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

— Nina Fedoroff

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

— Peter Diamandis

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

— Michael Ledeen

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

— Albert Allen Bartlett

Some restrictions should be imposed on population. First of all, each city should have certain population, certain limit.

— Hema Malini

Ohio's central location allows drivers to reach more than 60% of the U.S. population daily.

— Jon Husted

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

— Ali Babacan

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

— Lester R. Brown