Population Quotes · Page 62

Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people…

— Sjon

Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in…

— David Attenborough

If 3,000 people perished in the World Trade Center attacks and the Jewish population is 10 percent, you show me records of…

— Malik Zulu Shabazz

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than…

— Ivan Stang

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

— Paul Bloom

You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people.…

— Rush Limbaugh

A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America…

— Tommy Franks

The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in…

— Jonathan Franzen

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

— James Douglas

Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence…

— William J. Clinton

America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and…

— Thomas McGuane

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Pathology by Daesh is distinctively to swallow its opponents, to frighten the population. In that regard, the threat is very real.

— Ashraf Ghani

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

— Bob Beauprez

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes…

— Vivek Wadhwa

I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where…

— Trevor Noah

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a…

— Jonathan Kozol

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your…

— Robert Sternberg

Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you…

— Sandra Cisneros

The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the…

— Gene Baur

You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not…

— Erwin Chargaff

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

— Tom Vilsack

Considering that future generations will be far better off than current generations even after accounting for climate change, it would be more…

— Indur M. Goklany