Population Quotes

1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors

What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population? — Garrett Hardin
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You… — Tony Blair
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment — David Attenborough
The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is… — Unknown Author
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife — Confucius
Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on… — Albert Einstein
To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need… — Isaac Asimov
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. — Art Hoppe
Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show. — Noam Chomsky
All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British… — Ludwig von Mises
On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an… — Immanuel Wallerstein
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening… — Immanuel Wallerstein
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end. — C.S. Lewis
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population… — Rene Dubos
Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary. — Thomas W. Horton
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any… — Albert Allen Bartlett
An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida… — Robert D Bullard
If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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