Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere...… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ...… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much.… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks… — Marc Prensky Copy Share Image
That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image