Population Quotes

1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors

America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft… — Thomas McGuane
The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the… — Charles Derber
Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America].… — Edward Kennedy
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in… — E. O. Wilson
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have… — Herbert Hoover
It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I… — Mark Twain
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite… — Bertrand Russell
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic… — Roger Rosenblatt
I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people. — Woody Guthrie
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.'… — Larry Kramer
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear… — Herbert Marcuse
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. — Constance Baker Motley
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. — Constance Baker Motley
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other… — John Taylor Gatto
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a… — Greg LeMond
The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy… — Michael Eisner
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in… — Arthur Keith
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the… — Mary Douglas
If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think… — Rick Santorum
Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering… — Michael Azerrad
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing… — Rick Bass
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and… — Ginny Brown-Waite
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent… — Michelle Bachelet
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney… — Xavier Becerra

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