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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.
Noam Chomsky

The mass populace is ignorant of the facts, and unaware of its own lack of awareness.
Authors on Population Quotes: Noam Chomsky Thomas Malthus Ernst Mayr Phil Harding Barack Obama Bertrand Russell Paul Watson Garrett Hardin Rush Limbaugh David Foreman David Attenborough Bill Gates Judith Butler John Warren Kindt Isaac Asimov Henry A. Kissinger Mark Steyn John Stuart Mill Gerald Epstein Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret Sanger Paul R. Ehrlich Stephen Hawking Vladimir Putin Douglas J. Futuyma Nicholas A. Christakis Pope Benedict XVI William J. Clinton Adolf Hitler Stephen Jay Gould Tim Gunn Yitzhak Rabin James Lovelock
2.
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment
David Attenborough

'Instead of manipulating the natural world to suit the needs of society, perhaps we should restrain people's activities to guarantee the preservation of our surroundings.'
3.
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
Michel Foucault

Are there too many inmates in the correctional facilities, or are too many people unjustly incarcerated?
4.
Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.
Unknown

Instate the cataloguing of all guns under some guise, with the intent of seizing them and leaving citizens unprotected.
5.
The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live
Julius Nyerere

'The surest way to curb population growth in developing countries is the assurance of children's survival.'
6.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
Noam Chomsky

If you desire to manipulate a populous... provide them with an idol to venerate.
7.
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.
Harry J. Anslinger

8.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Isaac Asimov

9.
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.
Bartolome de las Casas

10.
We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.
Walter Cronkite

11.
It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.
Paul Kagame

12.
The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.
Jim Gerlach

13.
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.
Boris Yeltsin

14.
Regarding social media, I really dont understand what appears to be the general populations lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey its them, not me, so whatever.
Axl Rose

15.
In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.
Dave Reichert

16.
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
Antoine Lavoisier

17.
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat

18.
In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.
Stephen Hawking

19.
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

20.
By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
Paul R. Ehrlich

21.
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!
Yitzhak Rabin

22.
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.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

23.
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.
Jan Egeland

24.
World population needs to be decreased by 50%
Henry A. Kissinger

25.
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
Margaret Mead

26.
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.
Peter Lynch

27.
Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.
John Olver

28.
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
Billie Joe Armstrong

29.
There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor putting more pressure on the eco system than any other - namely the ever-increasing population.
Chris Packham

30.
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
Thomas Malthus

31.
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record.
Ernst Mayr

32.
Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.
Gary Kleck

33.
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.
Pentti Linkola

34.
There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.
Evan Davis

35.
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
Gail Collins

36.
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.
Thomas Malthus

37.
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
Mario Batali

38.
This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
Roger Waters

39.
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
John O. Brennan

40.
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
Albert Einstein

41.
Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
Margaret Sanger

42.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
Pierre Bourdieu

43.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.
Thomas Malthus

44.
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness
Robert McNamara

45.
The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.
Nouriel Roubini

46.
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals.
Raphael Lemkin

47.
It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

48.
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.
Alexis de Tocqueville

49.
I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.
Hayao Miyazaki

50.
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam Chomsky