Population Quotes

1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon… — Ray Bradbury
‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling… — David Attenborough
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling… — Vladimir Nabokov
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few… — Graham Greene
The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War… — Howard Zinn
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population,… — Mark Levin
Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you… — Lee Kuan Yew
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political… — Naomi Wolf
Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?" It sounds like she's smirking. "Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of… — Veronica Roth
It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements,… — Neil Gaiman
[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] — Gregory Maguire
What will he [Satan] do first? Prevent spirits from coming to earth. How will he do this? He'll do all in his power to promote… — John Bytheway
Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population;… — Judith Butler
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows… — Steven Erikson
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical;… — Frederic Bastiat
She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this… — Karl Pilkington
America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked. — David Letterman
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second,… — Richard Dawkins
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in… — Noam Chomsky
But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a… — John Green
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial… — Robert A. Heinlein
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for… — Karl Marx
It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t… — Isaac Marion
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist. — George Orwell

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