“Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.” WorldMatterHumanityPopulationGenocideEntitlement Author:Judith Butler
“Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are given 80% of their electoral votes based on their population, whether they include illegals or not, is the assessment that that is how they affect elections.” StatesGivenPresidentCollegeVoteElectionPopulationAliensVotingIllegalAssessmentIllegal AliensElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!” YearsFirstsMeanRealityHumanityThreeFoundPrinciplesFiveObjectsPlanetsThousandComputerThirdsWeightPopulationExpertsBombsDigitalThousand YearsDemographicsAtomic Bomb Author:Paul Virilio
“Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.” PeoplePopulationTerroristHospitalityAfghan Author:Lisa Ling
“Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.” PeopleThinkingCountryNamesKnowingDemocracyHealthyPopulationBurdenOur CountryPercentagesDiscussing Author:Lisa Ling
“The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.” PeopleWellsCountryHardCertainWealthDecisionCompanyGrowingRiskGroupsSharePolicySeriousConsequenceEuropeAdvantageIncreaseInvestmentPopulationDecadesNervousInequalityUncertaintyShyLionsUnemploymentSmall GroupsPopulistPostponing Author:Nicholas Bloom
“People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational marijuana are now legal. Two-thirds of the country. I am looking at it as kind of a 10th Amendment, states'-rights issue.” PeopleKindTwoCountryStatesRealizingUnitedUnited StatesIssuesRightsThirdsPopulationMedicalMarijuanaAmendmentsStates Rights Author:John Hickenlooper
“You listen to all the [Barack] Obama intelligence officials all saying ISIS will infiltrate that [immigrants] population. We have so many majority-Muslim countries that are not impacted, but the media insists on calling this a Muslim ban.” CountryMediaCallingMajorityPopulationBarackOfficialsImmigrantsIsisBans Author:Sean Hannity
“If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures to deny the rights of the individual instead of reconciling the rights of the individual with the collective, I would definitely stand completely on the side of the individualist who is trying to rescue above all that most precious thing that makes us human - consciousness and personality.” IfsWayTryingHumansNamesIndividualSidesConsciousnessRightsPersonalityUnityPopulationDenyLibertarianCommunismCollectivesRescueHuman ConsciousnessPrecious Things Author:Murray Bookchin
“Obama has always been, while President, has been close to the Queen of England, and the Queen of England has a standing policy now, which has been going on for some time, saying that we have to reduce the human population, on this planet, from 7 billion people down to less than 1! That is her avowed policy.” PeopleHumansHas BeensPresidentPolicyPlanetsStandingEnglandPopulationBillionsQueensHuman PopulationQueen Of England Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“If Barack Obama's policies, as he just put the new stages through into operation, if that policy is allowed, you're going to see, open, Hitler-style genocide applied to a large section of the population, who are considered "not fit to survive," "not fit to live"! Just like Hitler, "lives unfit to live."” IfsStageStylePolicyFitPopulationBarackOperationsGenocideSections Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U.S.] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].” YearsNationsCommunityNumbersHalfCasesKnowingDangerPercentPopulationAfrican AmericanTestedHivOur CommunitySmall PartsNon Stop Author:Jay Ellis
“Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesPopulationOutsidersRefugee Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldKindMeanRealProblemPoliticalPartyMediaFrontsInvolvedSummerPagesPopulationDebateInstanceSuitsDiversePolitical PartiesExaggeratedReal ProblemsBathingMontrealQuebecYes Or NoBathing Suits Author:Andre Pratte
“Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.” ProblemBehindsSecurityMilitarySeriousEuropePopulationInternalsCapabilityCompetitivenessDemography Author:Viktor Orban
“What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.” PeopleWayHappensWould BeGivenSupportGreaterAreasPopulationDrivenResistanceAfghanistanComing BackBeltsTalibanDiscardedUnderestimatedPashtuns Author:Ahmed Rashid
“Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.” CountryInterestDirectElectionPopulationSupremeSpotsGuaranteesOrgansRepresentativesBoundless Author:Joseph Stalin
“Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside.” CountrySometimesGovernmentHappensDemandOrganizationFunctionTownsPopulationLocalsOur CountryOrgansCountrysideLocal Government Author:Joseph Stalin
“Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.” HandsGovernmentSecretEqualDirectUniversalElectionPopulationOrgansWhips Author:Joseph Stalin
“In Rwanda, we have a society that has experienced a very serious rupture and you can't expect all of a sudden that things will be perfect. Even so: You cannot find any more areas where any segment of the population would be afraid to go, like we used to have before. But there is always a lot more to do.” Would BeUsedPerfectSeriousAreasPopulationRwandaRupture Author:Paul Kagame
“The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone up very nicely. But we have been producing students at a rapid rate; they're competing for funds and therefore they're more frustrated. I think there's a certain sense of weariness in the intellectual realm, it's not in any way peculiar to economics, it's a general proposition.” ThinkingWayHas BeensCertainGrowthGoneGreaterStudentsIntellectualEconomicsRatePopulationRealmsFundPeculiarRelevantFrustratedCompetingPropositionsRapidsVery NiceWeariness Author:Kenneth Arrow
“Information technology has politicized the world's population.” WorldTechnologyInformationPopulationInformation Technology Author:Brent Scowcroft
“With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.” PeopleThinkingRealMovingPowerfulDestinyWestPopulationChinaEastRussiaMoving Out Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach out to foreign sources for energy, for raw materials. They have to reach out to the world for markets. They have to export. They have to maintain full employment. They've got a terrible population problem. So they need a stable world, in a way.” WorldWayNeedsBelieveProblemRunningEnergyI BelieveRealizingExampleMaterialsSourceTerriblePopulationEmploymentChineseDependentReach OutStableRaw MaterialsPopulation Problem Author:Brent Scowcroft
“When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.” MeanStillsBlackRaceHalfThirdsVictimFolksPopulationInstanceAfrican AmericanExecutionLynchingDeath Row Author:Shane Claiborne
“After eight years of [Barack Obama], look what happened in this election. Did the country flip again? No. I maintain it didn't flip in 2008-2009, and we were not a 60% radical leftist population like they tried to portray it as.” YearsLooksCountryHappenedElectionPopulationEightRadicalBarackFlipLeftists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.” PeopleKnowsMenLeaderGroupsMen And WomenPopulationDebateGood ManFuriousEnglish Speaking Author:Nelson Mandela
“You'll also hear about the widening gap in the educated and the uneducated. The liberals will all say, "We must do something about it" and some in our population swoon, "Oh, yes, it's so unfair, and so unfortunate, and we've gotta do something about the inequality." So the Democrats then have their reason to do something about it, and the way they go about it is not trying to make people equal at all. The way they go about it is not even rooted in changing inequality, at the end of the day. The way they go about it is destructive for everybody.” PeopleWayTryingEndsReasonEqualDemocratPopulationEducatedInequalityThe End Of The DayDestructiveGapsRootedUnfortunateUnfairUneducated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.” IfsThinkingRealWould BeNumbersWeaponsKillingPopulationSpreadNuclearPreparationNuclear WeaponsSmallpox Author:Bill Gates
“The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world; the prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States; we do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada; an increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesJobsThreeEnergyUnitedNumbersHalfCompanySituationUnited StatesInvolvedCreatingDirectIndependenceTradeDollarsInvestmentPopulationEnvyBillionsEnormousPeacefulBordersCanadaFriendlyMexicoMexicanWithin ReachGeopoliticalCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceCanada And The United States Author:Alan Bersin
“What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except put Wall Street first, make America sick again, instill fear in our immigrant population in our country, and make sure that Russia maintains its grip, its grip on our foreign policy.” FirstsCountryDoneAmericaStreetsPolicyWallTrumpSickPopulationRussiaOur CountryAdministrationAddressesImmigrantsForeign PolicyDecayInstillInauguralInaugural AddressCarnage Author:Nancy Pelosi
“There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.” FightingWhiteRightsRacismPopulationNetherlands Author:Roger Ross Williams
“There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.” DifferentSpeakLanguagePopulationBarriersCiviliansVetsDifferent LanguagesLanguage Barriers Author:George W. Bush
“Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.” PeopleNeedsEndsCareShapesRemainsPopulationThe End Of The DayI CareEducator Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U.S. population are united in fear.” FeelsTwoSidesCommunityHoursUnitedHalfRightsPolicyLosingPopulationPostsBordersZoneTerrifiedBoth SidesMexicanHalf Hours Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.” ThinkingMindKindKidsGamesSportsPlayerFansFootballInvolvedDemandFolksPopulationCoachesIntenseDevotedCult Author:Steve Almond
“Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008 NATO formally made an offer to Ukraine to join NATO. That's unbelievable. I mean, Ukraine is the geopolitical heartland of Russian concern, quite aside from historical connections, population and so on.” MeanMadeOffersConcernConnectionsOkayBillsHistoricalClintonPopulationEastFormerGermanyUnbelievableUkraineBerlinNatoSatellitesGeopoliticalEast GermanyEast Berlin Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history. It was internal conquest. You had to defend yourself against what the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, an enlightened figure, called the attacks of the "merciless Indian savages," whose known way of warfare was torture and destruction. Also you had a slave population, you had to protect yourself against them. You needed guns.” WayLooksCultureKnownFiguresNeededProtectGunDestructionIndependenceSlavePopulationIndianTortureInternalsEnlightenedRootedWarfareSavagesDeclarationConquestAmerican CultureDeclaration Of IndependenceProtect Yourself Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think half the population supports this ban on these dangerous immigrants who are going to come in and do something, who knows what. And meanwhile the countries that really have been involved in terrorism, they're out. It's kind of like I think it was Oklahoma banning Sharia law.” ThinkingKnowsKindHas BeensCountryLawHalfSupportDangerousInvolvedPopulationTerrorismImmigrantsBansOklahomaShariaSharia Law Author:Noam Chomsky
“Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and immoral, not a mistake. And that attitude lasted as long as polls were taken in the early '80s.” LooksLongSaidWarMistakeAttitudeOpinionTakenPercentPopulationVietnam80sImmoralPublic OpinionPollsVietnam War Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at some point, a democracy, because people eventually will realize what's going on. You can only bulls - t people through kinds of media outlets for so long, and eventually you have to physically control them.” PeopleIfsKindLongRealizingWealthDemocracyMediaPlanetsAmountPopulationOutletsBullsTransfersSmall Amounts Author:Irvine Welsh
“As far as the he Taliban goes, it is not one unified organization Some of them are brutal to the population, some are less aggressive. But the key is that none of them pose an immediate threat to the U.S.” KeysOrganizationThreatPopulationAggressiveBrutalTalibanUnified Author:Robert Greenwald
“From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the wealthiest 5% of the population. So they got all the growth. 95% of the population didn't grow. If you can get a flat tax or other lower tax, as Trump is suggesting, then this richest 5% will be able to keep even more money. That means that the 95% will be even poorer than they were before, relative to the very top.” IfsMeanAbleGrowsGrowthEconomyTrumpTaxesPopulationIncomeFlatsRelativeMore MoneySuggestingAmerican EconomyFlat Tax Author:Michael Hudson
“Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.” TryingMindWellsLooksHas BeensCountryStatesBlackWhiteUnitedUnited StatesHappenedCenturyGreatnessTaughtDiversityLateRacismPopulationSeedsDiscriminationRacistBigotryFoundingTwentieth Century Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The law exists for lots of reasons. In the case of migration, the law exists to maintain the integrity of America. We allow immigrants here, happily so. We don't deny legal immigrants a path to citizenship in this country. But beyond that, since we can't take in everybody, since everybody can't come here, it's physically not possible - well, it is. You know you could put the population of the world inside the state of Texas in 1,500-square-feet homes. I mean, you wouldn't want to, but you could do it.” KnowsWorldWantWellsMeanCountryStatesReasonHomeAmericaLawCasesPathFeetIntegrityPopulationDenyImmigrantsTexasSquaresCitizenshipMigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In Obama's world, it's Fox News and me that are the reason the Republican base doesn't like him. It can't possibly be that those people actually pay attention, are actually intelligent, informed, and they actually disagree with what he's doing. It can't be that because you are not that smart and independently thinkable. You're like the Democrat base. You're bunch of idiots who only know and do and believe what you're told. There may be a degree of exaggeration in there, but that is exactly how the left looks at their voters, and that's how they look at the whole population.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksMayReasonWholeLeftPayAttentionRepublicanDegreesNewsSmartIntelligentDemocratPopulationBunchPay AttentionIdiotVotersDisagreeFoxesExaggerationFox NewsThinkable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or too brutal or what have you. There's a segment of our adult population that's still children, still kids.” PeopleWantLooksChildrenStillsMightKidsHurtNumbersGrowingFootballAdultsPopulationViolentBrutalBans Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Look at the black population of America, if I dare say so. That's what I was thinking of a moment ago. Look at the people who have invested the Democrat Party for 50 years, look at 'em. How have their lives improved? They haven't.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLooksMomentsAmericaBlackPartyHavensDemocratPopulationDareEms Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away.” ShouldStillsHateFourInfluenceCrimeMovementMassIllPopulationSquaresRidingCentsGangAprilChairmanPassed AwayUnderratedMaoChairman MaoTiananmen Square Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Barack Obama's devastating. His policies and his presidency are devastating. But I have this confidence that he's not gonna succeed in total transforming this country into a Western European socialist democracy where the vast majority of the population just lays down and accepts it.” CountryAcceptingDemocracyPolicySucceedDown AndMajorityLaysWesternPopulationBarackSocialistPresidencyTransforming Author:Rush Limbaugh