Children Quote by Thomas Malthus

“Where population is balanced and abundant, much child- bearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing of state; where violence comes but rarely offspring…

— H.G.Wells

...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the…

— Audrey Hepburn

When I consider how little of a rarity children arethat every street and blind alley swarms with themthat the poorest people commonly have them…

— Charles Lamb

If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to…

— John Holdren

where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when,…

— Margaret Mead

“when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put…

— Jonathan V. Last

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth...

— Al Gore

“The ‘population problem’ has been seen as something that happens in the Indian countryside or a Nairobi slum. It is cited as the cause…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children…

— Jessica Valenti

“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less…

— Nikola Tesla

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford…

— Germaine Greer

“In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 Yet the increase in births still outpaced the…

— Yuval Noah Harari