Population Quotes

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist

If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city.

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.

Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.