Population Quotes
1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors
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The lack of manpower and infrastructural capacity in our Intermediate and Long-term Care sectors are problems that have been with us for the past 10…
— Low Thia Khiang
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Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in…
— Mao Zedong
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There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than…
— Kenneth C. Davis
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When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise…
— Lewis Gordon
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Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never…
— Daniel Quinn
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Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have…
— Josiah Strong
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How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral…
— Clive James
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The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact…
— Luc Montagnier
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I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and…
— Billy Tauzin
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult…
— Naoto Kan
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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,…
— Eric Hoffer
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It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
— Stewart Udall
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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save…
— Stewart Udall
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If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions…
— Aldous Huxley
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Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of…
— William Ralph Inge
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The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal…
— Ivan Illich
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I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about…
— Eduardo Galeano
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We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It…
— Earl Warren
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