Population Quotes

1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles. — Nuno Bettencourt
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the… — Norman Borlaug
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need… — J. Michael Straczynski
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human… — Jan Egeland
We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites,… — Joe Slovo
They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares? — Rush Limbaugh
Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the… — David Jeremiah
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling… — Unknown Author
We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the… — Wilma Scott Heide
The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population. — Jose Ramos-Horta
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world,… — Isaac Asimov
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this… — Stephen Hawking
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. — Chuck Palahniuk
I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that. — Phil Donahue
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of… — Noam Chomsky
It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step toward eliminating many… — John F. Kennedy
The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere. — Donny Osmond
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with… — Roland Barthes
The optimum human population of earth is zero. — David Foreman
Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are… — Margaret Chan
Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock

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