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“The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.”

Way Government Courses Deals Issues Essentials Commitment Increase Rate Population

Author:Robert McNamara

“In Boston, a couple of the women were students and they mentioned how Boston has a huge student population, and that's specific to their experiences of street harassment. They feel like the men were a lot more aggressive, particularly when it comes to social outings and things like that.”

Men Feels Social Streets Students He Man Huge Couple Population Aggressive Boston Harassment Street Harassment

Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?”

Thinking Children States Reason Facts Shows Problem Seems Might United Cities Wonder United States Study Share Couple Majors Population Odd Smallest San Francisco Rice Reproducing

Author:Jay Leno

“Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.”

Government Rich Population Serving Representatives Dominant

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

Needs Humans Earth Turns Understanding Technology Sea Land Population Farms New Technology Human Population

Book:The act of life

Source: The act of life

“Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they have vast populations, but, the real wealth, real greatnesss is virtue which earns the Grace of God.”

Real Wealth Virtue Grace Arms Population Finance Territory Grace Of God Real Wealth

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.”

“One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.”

“One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.”

Trying Facts Care Film Challenges Levels Deals Attention Subjects Population Obvious Trauma Extras Survivor Documentaries Vigilance Minefields Documentary Films

Author:Amy Ziering

“I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work. It's important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger.”

People Thinking Knows Want Important Film Voice Greater Female Weight Stronger Population Filmmaker Working It Copies Fewer Percentages

Author:Megan Griffiths

“The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.”

People World Important War Difficult Known Millions Technology Europe Horse Series Population China Conquest Chunks Fathom Mongols

Author:Max Fisher

“The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.”

World States United United States Percent Population Nobel

Author:Max Fisher

“There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.”

People Ifs World Animal Habit Eating India Increase Raises Population China Accidents Starving Imposing Obese Eating Habits China And India Agribusiness

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.”

Courses Black Population Utah Idaho

Author:Richard Benjamin

“With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.”

People Thinking Democracy Growing Equal Members Population Minorities Collectives Can Not Integrated

Author:Richard Benjamin

“I live in the United States, and I'm not moving. But from the standpoint of food safety, the countries in Scandinavia do it better than we do. It's not that they don't have food-poisoning incidents; it's that there are many fewer in proportion to the population.”

Country States Moving United United States Safety Population Proportion Fewer Incidents Standpoint Poisoning Food Safety Scandinavia Food Poisoning

Author:Marion Nestle

“Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed whether or not you'd have to take a gondola to the Empire State Building, and that sort of thing, but we didn't know at the time whether the climate change would be in the direction of heating or cooling. We just didn't know enough about it.”

Knows Writing Book States Enough Would Be Building Climate Climate Change Population Optimistic Bombs Empires Heating Cooling Empire State Building Empire State Gondolas

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to an end because we control our reproduction, and in many areas we have started to do so, or we'll end up with a high death rate. You have to take a personal moral stand on this.”

Two Ends Choices Moral Areas Rate Population Explosions Reproduction Population Explosion

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.”

Way Turns Three Deals Economy Issues Easier Standards Population Obvious Extremes Cures Consumption Refrigerators Stuttering Suvs

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is to control the size of your populations if you’re going to limit emissions.”

Ifs Important Country Government Limits Size Population China Chinese Boards Documents Formal Emissions

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“People have not made the connection that the more of us there are, the more greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere. The Chinese have. They, unlike us, have a population policy. The right wingers just don't understand that the country they're in is probably the most overpopulated in the world, the one doing most of the destruction, and the one with horrendously bad leadership.”

People World Made Country Policy Connections Destruction Population Chinese Atmosphere Right Wing Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.”

Thinking Attitude Opinion Information Majors Population Administration Posts Wheels Mentality Representatives Accustomed Public Opinion Secrecy Accommodate Squeaky Wheel

Author:Ted Gup

“Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.”

Real Self Poor Leader Movement Mass Percent Iraq Population Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population. So if you were ever going to have an election, then the Shia would take over.”

People Ifs Moments Benefits Percent Decided Election Population Saddam Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.”

Percent Population Cancer Affected

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.”

Needs Children Long Able Term Population Finance Welfare Long Term Germany Immigrants Getting Old Getting Older Workforce

Author:Paul Achleitner

“As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.”

Thinking World Long Important Facts Bigs Today Term Ability Cities Class Findings Areas Size Population Long Term Expanding World Class Drawbacks

Author:Charles Landry

“The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the desired way of life in their country, an idea that holds sway over the population. A unifying concept like that can be useful, but should never be created artificially or imposed top-down by the powers-that-be.”

People Thinking Way Should Ideas Country Might Understanding Term Concepts Population Unifying Unclear Top Down

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.”

People Way Should Sometimes Behavior Evidence Asking Institutions Population Proportion Admirable Deserving

Author:David Graeber

“But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.”

People Thinking Country Running Political New York Accounts Towns Population Officials Avenues

Author:Mark Leibovich

“Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance to one or more pesticides has been reported in at least 225 species of insects and other arthropods. The genetic variants required for resistance to the most diverse kinds of pesticides were apparently present in every one of the populations exposed to these man-made compounds.”

Men Firsts Kind Has Beens Made Species Population Resistance Exposed Diverse Insects Compounds Pesticides Ddt Arthropods

Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.”

“You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.”

Knows Men Facts Age Today Enjoy Greater Planets Higher Ten Standards Capitalism Mere Population Valuable Proof Absence Do You Know Ancestor Standards Of Living Higher Standards

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.”

Way America White Race Diversity Understood Population Ethnic Diversity

Author:Barack Obama

“At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.”

Looks Kind Earth Spirituality Essence Population Caring

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.”

Country Can Do Clear Population

Author:Kofi Annan

“The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population. Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it's not one thing that we need to focus on. It's everything all at once.”

Needs Should Humans Kids Girl Successful Focus One Thing Population Educated Educate Fewer Routes Reducing Human Population Educated Women

Author:Bill Nye

“Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.”

People Ifs Long Doe Has Beens Seems Cities Half Cost Court Average Population Things To Do Right Thing Grants Shelter Ignored Homeless Housing Nyc Homeless People Eviction

Author:Paul Bettany

“As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.”

Men World Real Illusion Population Real World Rome Statues

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.”

Problem Morality Solutions Fundamentals Population Extensions Population Problem

Book:Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

Source: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

“Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.”

People Men Black Millions Vote Males Population Voting Cents Right To Vote Criminality Felons Black Males

Book:The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

Source: The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

“Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.”

Men States America Opportunity Conditions He Man Encouragement Population Farmers Southern

Author:Booker T. Washington

“There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with.”

Looks Five Four Percent Population African American Minorities Iowa

Author:Joe Biden

“A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.”

Has Beens Country Government Liberty Accepting Population

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?”

Thinking Giving Humans Stories Running Pain Turns Laughing Style Population Ass Ems Pushing Funny Travel Twists Airports Parking Parking Lot Human Population Alcatraz Pushing Each Other

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.”

Littles Ideas Fall Responsibility Effects Mass Plant Workers Population Old Fashioned Assembly Borrowed Borrowing Slums Dwellers

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.”

Ifs Children Doe College Return Our Children Add University Population Former Latter Fanatics Harvard Legislature Virginia Kentucky Cambridge Transylvania

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. There isn't much of that anymore either. There are very few poems people can recite, but there are quite a few hymns that, if you hum a few bars, people can at least come up with two verses. Many of the older hymns are very beautiful.”

People Ifs Two Beautiful Certain Wonderful Population Come Up Bars Verses Hymns Very Beautiful

Author:Marilynne Robinson

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