Populous Quotes

25 quotes by 20 authors

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws. — Aristotle
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa… — Ed Royce
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries… — Norman Borlaug
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town,… — Walt Whitman
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two… — Bartolome de las Casas
I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see… — Bob Wise
The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once… — F L Lucas
Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray… — William Osler
These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. — Robert Louis Stevenson
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will… — James Bryce
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. — Ernst Mayr
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here… — William Shakespeare
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned… — Warren Buffett
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. — Aristotle
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung… — Louis Sullivan
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states. — Allen West

Who Wrote These Populous Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 25 Populous Quotes as follows: