Advancing Quote by John Stuart Mill

The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.

— Jan Schakowsky

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

— Garrett Hardin

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new…

— Yuval Noah Harari

What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

— Garrett Hardin

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought…

— Bill Gates

With the rather stable ratio of labor force to total population, a high rate of increase in per capita product means a high rate…

— Simon Kuznets

When you increase productivity, economies become better - local economies become better, society becomes better.

— Jensen Huang

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

— Alex Berenson

People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population…

— Ian Goldin

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and…

— Heber J. Grant

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

— Jamie Dimon