Population Quotes

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The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

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 hundred persons.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy