Population Quotes

1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors

A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full… — Suketu Mehta
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form… — Neil Postman
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she… — John Irving
The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered… — Jonathan Franzen
Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror. — Michael Moorcock
Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once… — Kenny Chesney
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the… — Pentti Linkola
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are… — Howard Zinn
The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,'… — John Green
She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… — Herbert Marcuse
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the… — Frederick Douglass
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only… — Matt Taibbi
The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96… — Russell T Davies
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! — William Makepeace Thackeray
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of… — David Attenborough
People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important… — Jared Diamond
I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless… — Jose Rizal
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total… — Jim Butcher
Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes. — Tamora Pierce
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can… — Frank Herbert
They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the… — Suzanne Collins
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per… — Ha-Joon Chang
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the… — Mark Steyn
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The… — Aleister Crowley

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