The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny,… — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come… — Najibullah Quraishi Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Israel's pro-American orientation exists not just among Israeli elites but also among the whole population. Come what may in Israel, it's inconceivable… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I am extremely proud of our remarkable men and women who serve in our military, but the reality is that this is… — Don Young Copy Share Image
If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
People have not made the connection that the more of us there are, the more greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere. The… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000.… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these… — Kyra Zagorsky Copy Share Image
We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population? Of course I did. First of all, we had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image