Population Quotes · Page 88

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't…

— Roger Ross Williams

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later,…

— Doris Lessing

We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think.

— Michael Leiter

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

— John O. Brennan

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children

— Madeleine Bunting

The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem…

— Luis von Ahn

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than…

— Tim Minchin

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make…

— Thabo Mbeki

You should make her call you ‘Miss Georgina,’” added Hugh with a mocking southern drawl. “Or at least ‘ma’am.’” Niphon’s presence and…

— Richelle Mead

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

— Susan Jane Gilman

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail…

— Helene D. Gayle

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

— Ted Dekker

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a…

— Sarah Parcak

We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You…

— Jeremy Grantham

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade,…

— Ian Somerhalder

We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because…

— Grace Lee Boggs

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

Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent…

— Edward Abbey

I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with…

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

While we Brits love a curry, the French get their spicy kicks from the culinary traditions bestowed by their North African population.

— Rachel Khoo

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

— Stephen Hawking

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique…

— Tom Allen

The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready…

— Anatol Rapoport