Population Quotes
1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors
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It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made…
— M. King Hubbert
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The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water…
— Al Gore
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It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not…
— Moshe Dayan
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We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a…
— Yitzhak Rabin
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America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health…
— Richard Lamm
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It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking…
— Melinda Gates
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Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability…
— Achim Steiner
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people…
— Ralph Nader
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If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary…
— Mary Daly
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be…
— John T. Flynn
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...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may…
— Thomas Malthus
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The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,…
— Thomas Malthus
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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It's a campaign strategy. He's all about getting the votes. I support gay marriage too, but Obama only does things to stir the pot and…
— Barack Obama
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There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?
— Mark Weisbrot
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A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.
— Paul Craig Roberts
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