Population Quotes

1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors

I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way… — Tom Hanks
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of… — Tom Hanks
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. — Garrett Hardin
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. — Garrett Hardin
The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum. — Garrett Hardin
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. — Garrett Hardin
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the… — Sam Harris
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise… — Vaclav Havel
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita… — Keith Henson
The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the… — Tom Hodgkinson
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports,… — Joseph Hume
I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please… — Penn Jillette
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35… — Meir Kahane
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have… — Abdul Kalam
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because… — Alveda King
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for… — Evel Knievel
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of… — Jonathan Kozol
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is… — Lawrence M. Krauss
You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor. — Lillie Langtry
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot… — Ang Lee
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to… — Annie Lennox
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or… — Annie Lennox
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. — David Letterman
Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's… — Rush Limbaugh
You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that… — Rush Limbaugh

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