Population Quotes

1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress,… — Marilyn French
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a… — Paul Goldberger
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats. — Paul Bloom
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a… — Lynn Margulis
It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis… — Unknown Author
As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously. — Alexander Suvorov
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the… — Henry Charles Carey
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if… — Henry Charles Carey
What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century… — Thomas Piketty
We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that. — Ivan Stang
The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable… — Nicholas Eberstadt
Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity. — Damian Thompson
The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a… — L. Harrison Matthews
We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources. — Silvia Cartwright
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. — Nina Fedoroff
The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules. — Steve Gleason
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in… — Henry W. Kendall
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo… — Ernst Engel
Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way. — William Langewiesche
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against… — Neal Ascherson
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started… — Ernst Mayr
When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just… — Jason W Clay
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. — Kim Campbell
The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population… — David Mixner
First, let's look at the importance of the young adult in the cigarette market. In 1960, this young adult market , the 14 to 24… — R. J. Reynolds

Who Wrote These Population Quotes

931 authors contributed a total of 1,295 Population Quotes, led by these top contributors: