Access Quote by Julian Huxley

It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension…

— Margaret Sanger

The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron…

— Margaret Sanger

One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating…

— Aristotle

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the…

— William S. Burroughs

Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they…

— Spencer W. Kimball

But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in…

— Adam Smith

I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display…

— H. G. Wells

It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can…

— Bill Gates

The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children,…

— Thomas Malthus

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no…

— Kim Brooks

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to…

— Tim Johnson

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the…

— Donella Meadows