Quote by Elizabeth H. Bradley

...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Are you going to count me on the census form?” “Sure. Ghost squatter, quantity of one. Sex male, race Caucasian, age dead. That’ll really…

— Chessela Helm

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

— Karla Souza

“Half the people in the world are below average. That's the definition of average and explains the behaviour of a lot of people.”

— Robert Popple

“When people from diverse nations congregate in one place, their diversity becomes more noticeable.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib

“Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.”

— Anonymous

“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at…

— Adam Hochschild

Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.

— Federico Pena

“Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.”

— Shlomo Sand

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

— Josh Fox

“One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.”

— Abe Kōbō

“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels