“We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?” YearsWarThreePeriodsPercentDirectTwentiesTownsSouthPopulationThree YearsBurnedExposureKoreaNorth KoreaStarvationCasualtiesSouth Korea Author:Curtis LeMay
“From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.” MayGovernmentCertainOrderGivenHoursPlansWorstReadyNewsTownsPopulationDestinationGenocideMinorsAsiaInsignificantPursuedOctoberProvincesExplicitMassacresExterminationArmeniansDeportationArmenian GenocideOttomansMesopotamiaReady To Leave Author:Herbert Adams Gibbons
“People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.” PeopleEconomicActivityHundredEmpowermentProgramAccountsIndiaTownsCleanPopulationVillage Author:Narendra Modi
“The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.” CountrySeemsSpiritNextChristianityTownsPopulationCriticalPoisonEnlightenedRegionsRegulationShelvesModerationAntidoteCountyTemperanceDrunkardsHavocPuritanismCritical Spirit Author:Bertrand Russell
“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.” PeopleThinkingCountryRunningPoliticalNew YorkAccountsTownsPopulationOfficialsAvenues Author:Mark Leibovich
“Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.” IfsWayYearsLongChanceSupportHeardOppositesTownsDown AndPreparedFolksWavePopulationStoresOne WaySwimConventionalBe PreparedNicheWrong WayDiscountsConventional WisdomGood Chance Author:Sam Walton
“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
“The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.” PeopleWayBelieveMightWishSexWaterCitiesSuccessfulEffectsProjectsTownsPopulationConvincedLocalsFortunateSmall TownFarmingStarvingTransportRailSuburbiaWater Power Author:James Howard Kunstler
“[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.” IdeasArtistRichWonderfulTownsPopulationArtisticFishingSympatheticPlaces To LiveWonderful Places Author:Warren MacKenzie
“You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.” BelieveWholeMetsTownsPopulationMayors Author:Lillie Langtry
“My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.” PlayFilmCitiesClassAudienceMiddleTownsPopulationEducatedMiddle ClassSmall TownBengaliDelhiBombayMadras Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.” NeedsHomeSchoolGrowsLinesCitiesMillionsHugeIncreasePressureTownsPopulationExpectedHospitalsAustralianRailAccommodateOur Town Author:Kevin Rudd
“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.” PeopleCountryResultsTownsWavePopulationTerroristOur CountryVillageBloodyCiviliansMoscow Author:Boris Yeltsin
“Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)” IfsKnowsWritingCharacterClassGoneThousandTownsPopulationMinorsSeventiesSmall TownThirteenDickensDid You KnowMinor Characters Book:The Polysyllabic Spree Source: The Polysyllabic Spree
“But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.” KnowsMenTownsPopulationPregnant Book:An Abundance of Katherines Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesEarthNationsCitiesTownsPopulationCrowdsGet BetterOur Town Author:Albert Allen Bartlett