Home / Topics / Population Quotes

Population Quotes

Browse 2054 quotes about Population.

Population Quotes

“The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.”

Way Art Growth Amount Population Substitutes

Book:The Simple Art of Murder

Source: The Simple Art of Murder

“...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation... this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”

“The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.”

Red Army Clean Population Native Parallels Horde Red Army

Author:George F. Kennan

“Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.”

“There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.”

People Ifs Trying Would Be Doors Window Population Explosions Population Explosion Storks

Author:Evan Esar

“You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.”

Policy Population Conservation

Author:David R. Brower

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.”

“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”

Source: Bright Shiny Morning

“Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.”

Dream Reality Today America University Population Educational Poorest Dream Reality Wilberforce

Author:Eric Metaxas

“Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.”

Science Environment Mouths Leaving Population Atmosphere Damage Habitat Illiteracy Unprepared

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.”

People Wells Has Beens Government Order Rights Military Horse Police Population Concerts Anarchy Spontaneous Despotism Free Government Military Police

Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.”

Knows States Culture Female Accounts England Males Population Exceed New England

Book:Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

“Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession is war, understands that peace must be enforced by superior military might. The certainty of defeat is the only effective deterrent we can use to maintain peace. Furthermore, we can be strong without being aggressive.”

War Use Might Political Strong Military Defeat Soldier Population Profession Superiors Certainty Aggressive Rulers Civilians Deterrent

Author:Barry Goldwater

“Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.”

Wells Mean Children Done Together Mother Poor Poverty Planets Percent Absolutes Majority Population Refugee

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.”

People Ifs Mean Three Opportunity Growth Space Answers Poverty Dignity Increase Threat Population Crowds Decency Decrease Minus Population Growth

Author:Marya Mannes

“it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.”

Source: How Writing Is Written

“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.”

Humans Country Human Beings Deals Violence Capable Killing Population Wounds Permit Distribution Escaping Firearms

Author:Margaret Mead

“We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.”

Knows Years May Home Names Left Havens Population

Author:Barbara Holland

“America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.”

America Order White United States Population Assumption Genocide Continents Residents

Author:Susan Sontag

“But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.”

People Years May Reason Used Certain Social Results Advantage Argument Population Discrimination Paradox Portions Withholding

Book:Twenty Years at Hull House

Source: Twenty Years at Hull House

“What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?”

Ifs Knows Humans Happens Fighting Peace Human Beings Planets Population

Author:Gladys Taber

“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.”

Ifs Wisdom Law Differences Wealth Numbers Class Principles Ought Activity Mass Sacred Property Population Extremes Neighbor Favors Productive Multitudes Private Property

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.”

War Percent Population British Celebrate Revolutionary Loyal Crowns Revolutionary War Yorktown

Author:Rachel Martin

“You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.”

People Doe Government Dies Loses Deals Millions Series Population China Chinese Rising Dominant Shanghai Chinese Government Typhoons

Author:David Titley

“Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.”

Happens Energy Water Technology Issues Climate Environmental Climate Change Population Vacuums Environmental Issues

Author:David Titley

“Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.”

Certain Population Driving Drunk Substance Alcoholism Percentages Tobacco Drunk Driving

Author:Don Winslow

“Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.”

Should Enough House Voice Heard Percent Congress Population Senate

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.”

Ifs Want Persons Real Couple Capable Hundred Population Scare Crap

Author:Charlie Kelly

“was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?”

Long Stills Two Earth Process Community Century Revolution Evolution Higher Cost Thirds Population Bread Kicks Guarantees Covered Daily Bread

Author:Ella Winter

“The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.”

“There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.”

Whole Bases Population Good Times Mentality

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“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.”

Feels Children Concerned West Population Explosions Refrain Childbirth Population Explosion

Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

“It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.”

Years Certain Percent Population Observation Urges Cheat Dishonesty

Book:H

Source: H

“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.”

“The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.”

Causes Depends Bears Birth Periods Increase Rate Population Proportion Excess

Book:ON POPULATION THREE ESSAYS

Source: ON POPULATION THREE ESSAYS

“Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.”

People World States Today United Millions United States Democracy Ten Highest Prison Seven Rate Population Locks Prison Population

Book:Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

“So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!”

Ifs Way Would Be Earth Lasts Party Generations Sacrifice Agree Population Extinction Population Control

Book:Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

“There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it.”

“This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.”

“This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.”

People Humans Might Able Half Support Planets Comfort Limits Environmental Population Billions Damage Relative Population Control Human Population Environmental Damage

Author:Eric Pianka

“During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.”

Made Age Earth Secret Meditation Conditions Lows Ideals Ancient Population Technique Purity Discovering Auras Ancient Egypt Density Atlantis Population Density

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.”

Climate Change Population Fuel Fossils Poorest Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Author:Fatih Birol

“There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.”

Should Numbers Position Should Have Population Jew Percentages Large Numbers

Author:Otto Ohlendorf

“Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.”

People Should Mind May Made War Action Speak Sides Clear Population Nuclear Target Adopted Triggers Irresponsible Missiles Nuclear War Exploding Aggressors Gentlemanly Nuclear Missiles

Author:Dmitriy Ustinov

“Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.”

“With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.”

“Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs.”

Needs Real Process Democracy Military Complexes Including Population Determine Priorities Budgets Representatives Civil Society Military Industrial Complex Contractor

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.”

People World Country Earth Moving Form Speak Company Quiet Silent Population Jew Tongue Breathing Musings Heathen

Book:Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

Source: Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

“The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.”

People Humans Two Nations Goal United Thirds Regard Population Abortion Excess United Nations Reproduction Baggage Human Population Sterilization Excess Baggage

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.”