Population Quotes
1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors
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The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way…
— Fidel Castro
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or…
— Julian Huxley
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To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
— Benjamin Rush
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
— Ernst Mayr
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There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population…
— Bertrand Russell
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
— Adolf Hitler
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population…
— Ernst Mayr
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A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the…
— Friedrich Engels
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings…
— Ernst Mayr
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You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.
— Mary McGrory
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I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't…
— David Icke
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Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun used by Martin…
— David Icke
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We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.
— David Ben-Gurion
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Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find…
— Unknown Author
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The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all too evil…
— Pliny the Elder
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There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but…
— Roger Gale
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When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.
— John Lindberg
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The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi…
— Tim Kaine
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