War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
When we talk about foodies, we're talking about less than five per cent of the population who eat nicely. For most people… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
India needs fresh thinking and quick decision-making to get out of the stifling bind of its galloping population and deadly poverty. — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. — Henry W. Kendall Copy Share Image
You listen to all the [Barack] Obama intelligence officials all saying ISIS will infiltrate that [immigrants] population. We have so many majority-Muslim… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in… — Sanford Bishop Copy Share Image
The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it… — Kirby Page Copy Share Image
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, if we could communicate the truth, not only to the Hispanics but to the black population, all… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political… — Richard J. Needham Copy Share Image
“if there are many choices of 3.4 billion women/men in this world (2010 statistic: 65% from overall population or 2,2 billion are… — Aditia Rinaldi Copy Share Image
China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation,… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family. — Warren Littlefield Copy Share Image
Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image