Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city. — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished. — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050.… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
