If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . .… — Jacques Yves Cousteau 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
There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead… — Vern Huffman Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are… — Gary Kovacs Copy Share Image
The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and… — Graham Shiels Copy Share Image
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern… — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too. One… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated,… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments.… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens… — Mark Leiren-Young Copy Share Image
There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The United States has been an immigrant country. The Hispanics who come here are largely from Mexico and South America. They are… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures.… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled… — Luc Montagnier Copy Share Image
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Evidence is now available to indicate that the 14-to-18- year-old group is an increasing segment of the smoking population. RJR-T must soon… — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image