“In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.” FamilyAfricaBirth RateSocioeconomicsStandard Of LivingSocioeconomic Failure Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Lady Georgina of the Summer Court," Heather added. I turned in my seat to see two fae in the parking lot through the glass front door. The girl was on fire. Like, literally on fire. Her clothes had burned off, but you couldn't see much of her. You know, through the fucking fire. "What is going on?" I asked. "She's having some hot flashes." Thea came to stand near our table and crossed her arms with a sigh. "Alan is there trying to cool her off. The pregnancy has been rough on her." I looked at the flaming fae again, and sure enough a big ginger dude with a wild beard was waving his hands in the direction of his mate, spraying her with a mist of water. He might have been trying to put out the fire or just trying to simmer it down. "I've heard about this," Jerod said, standing up and tapping his chin. "You've had a little baby boom over here, haven't you?" "Something like that." Thea met Devin's gaze, pressing her lips in an attempt not to smile, and went over to the door to greet them. "The faerie gate is," Heather paused, "overcorrecting for a previous problem we'd had. Let's leave it at that." I looked up at Ryker, who was watching the flaming fae. He looked down at me with a shrug. "Fae. I'm still not entirely sure how they work and I've been around a while.” FaeriesBirth RateSequelPrevious Book:Dirty Lying Dragons Source: Dirty Lying Dragons
“If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?” IfsCountryPayBirthMajorsRateCurrentsDebtEnormousLowestDeveloped CountryBirth Rate Author:Jim Rogers
“Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.” WantYearsBelieveRealityCertainDestinySeaBirthHigherAreasRiversSouthResponseRateDon't BelieveJewIsraelDuesMinoritiesPalestinianSouth AfricaJordanApartheidDemographicsBirth RateDisengagementMediterranean Sea Author:Ehud Olmert
“Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.” CountryBirthHigherRateAccessProfessional LifeBirth Rate Author:Claude Martin
“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?” WellsMayHomeCausesSimpleEffectsBabyBirthRoseRatePopulationCreditGermanyMistakenCause And EffectTemptingCorrelationPseudoscienceBirth RateStorksHome Birth Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.” GivingReasonSituationEconomicBirthGive MeClimateRateOptimisticRisingBeing OptimisticBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.” KnowsMindIdeasWarPoorBirthRateHopefullyDistractionTossExamBirth Rate Author:James Tiptree Jr.
“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” MeanNaturalImpossibleBirthIncreaseRatePopulationSicknessMortalityReducingFamineReductionDemographicsInsufficientBirth RateDraconian Author:Robert McNamara
“It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.” FactsBirthRateImmigrantsIllegalExceedResidentsIllegal ImmigrantsBirth Rate Author:John Linder
“Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.” TurnsGrowsHalfLibertyDemocracyProduceTheoryBirthMassUniversalEncouragementSlaveryRateWitSecureAssuranceDeliberateSuffrageIgnobleUniversal SuffrageBirth RatePopular Education Author:H. L. Mencken
“Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.” CountryHelpingAmericaFallOpportunityNamesSexPerfectTvsBirthRateSolveTennisLegendsAdsAmbassadorsSwedenSwedishBirth RateBorg Author:Argus Hamilton
“We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. This is precisely why I think we should consider with a sense of urgency what the new image of "family" should be like, and not fall into the nostalgism that days gone by were just better.” ThinkingShouldIdeasShowsFallGoneBirthLosingRateTraditionalJapanStoppingUrgencyVergeSense Of UrgencyBirth RateDays Gone By Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.” MenWarEventsBirthAdvantageAreasRateMutationAtomic WarBirth Rate Author:William S. Burroughs
“The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.” MayCountryEarthPoorBirthLowsRateHardestBirth RateHardest Hit Author:William S. Burroughs
“Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.” BirthMethodRateVotingFavourBirth Rate Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.” CountryBodyHappensFallBirthRateThings HappenFacilityBirth ControlBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.” WorldHas BeensStillsBigsGrowthCasesAmountBirthHappeningsWestRatePopulationDroppingPopulation GrowthBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.” YearsBelieveWellsCountryFactsMillionsGoneBirthTenLimitsEuropeRateIncludingOther CountriesSeventiesBirth Rate Author:Indira Gandhi
“The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansChildrenHas BeensStillsProblemLastsChoicesHuman BeingsViewsBirthHappeningsWestRateSolveAlternativesFewerAcceptableOfferingBetter OffDroppingEcologicalVictorianLearBirth RateVictorian Times Author:David Attenborough
“The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.” FirstsNationsFeltFateBirthRateBoundsEmpiresReproductionDecadenceBirth Rate Author:Benito Mussolini
“UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.” ShouldBelieveCountryShowsFallOpportunityLeftI BelieveGrowthPoorPracticeStudyBirthGainsImpactRatePopulationCurrentsPlanningIncomeDevelopingEmpoweringFortyEarningTacticsIntimidationDeveloping CountriesPopulation GrowthFamily PlanningBirth Rate Author:Muhammad Yunus
“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.” BelieveHardUseNaturalSimpleSpaceLeaderMillionsBirthTruth IsMassUnderstoodLogicMethodRateBoundsPopulationLimitationFollowersPreferenceRocketsStarvationHard To BelieveSimple TruthsContraceptivesEmigrationBirth Rate Author:Richard Dawkins
“For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.” HumansMayEnoughProblemWould BeLife IsOrderDealsNumbersMankindBirthHighestTasksRegardTablesSacredRateDareDefenseBreadRationalHuman LifeAbortionGuestsArtificialIrrationalAffirmationDiminishAssemblyBanquetsBirth Rate Author:Pope Paul VI
“On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” ProblemTodayLimitsContraryUrgentDiscouragingEugenicsFertilityDefectivePlanned ParenthoodBirth Rate Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic
“As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” ShouldTwoMatterProblemTodayWishClassPovertyExampleBirthFitCivilizationLimitsCompetitionRateContraryInferiorsUrgentDiscouragingCradleEugenicsMenaceBirth ControlFertilityDefectiveInaugurationPlanned ParenthoodEmulationBirth Rate Author:Margaret Sanger
“I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.” IfsEndsMightCertainHumanityBabyBirthHorrorRateNightmareDeclineConsoleBirth Rate Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and is, and has always been no more killing. And when you focus on the no more killing part, spay neuter actually takes a backseat to all those other programs like foster care, and adoptions, and helping people overcome the challenges they face that cause them to surrender their animals.” PeopleHas BeensImportantHelpingMightCareFacesCausesGoalChallengesAnimalFocusBirthProgramOvercomingKillingRateSurrenderAdoptionHelping PeopleReducingFoster CareBackseatBirth Rate Author:Nathan Winograd
“In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.” IfsMenChildrenHas BeensTwoWarStatesWholeEvilWishBornCitiesLandSubjectsGrewBirthWasteMarriedLowsFruitRatePopulationSubstanceFallenYieldGreeceAvariceEpidemicsDecreaseAffluenceOwingDesertedIndolencePretentiousnessBirth Rate Author:Polybius
“The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate” WorldBirthMoonRateRisingProvokingAphrodisiacBirth Rate Author:Christopher Fry
“I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.” ChildrenPersonsSaidI CanSeemsCausesOpinionPovertyHeardEconomicBirthRateEconomic SystemsCauses Of PovertyBirth Rate Author:Pope Francis