Population Quotes · Page 78

Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of…

— Rick Perlstein

This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the…

— Hillary Clinton

Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it…

— Marjorie Harris

The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain,…

— Aaron Wildavsky

We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.

— Priti Patel

Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system…

— Nelson Mandela

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

— Bill McKibben

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for…

— Enoch Powell

The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the…

— Eric Hoffer

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers…

— Prince Philip

We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass…

— John Layfield

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

— Noam Chomsky

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

I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to…

— Vicente Fox

The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful…

— Alan Bersin

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

— David Rockefeller

If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as…

— Herbert Marcuse

Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine…

— Umberto Eco

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

— Alvin Adams

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown…

— Anonymous

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

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous…

— Phil Harding

Machiavelli wrote in the 16th century; when every land in the world so teams with people, that can neither subsist where they…

— Machiavelli

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

The Los Angeles Times reported that sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional. Good. 'Cause that means when Armageddon really…

— Christopher Titus