Population Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Real, Men, Rome

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.90, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Pigs, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Garrett Hardin

  Population Problem, Fundamentals, Morality

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• 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.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Men, People, Voting

  Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso

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• We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working ... Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff-it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  America, Goal, People

  "Are jobs obsolete?". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.

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• 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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Destiny, Class, Numbers

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.314

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• 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.

  Booker T. Washington

  Encouragement, Opportunity, America

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• 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.

  Joe Biden

  Iowa, African American, Looks

  "WaPo Downplays Biden's Latest Racial Blooper; NYT, LAT Ignore It". Article by Mark Finkelstein, www.newsbusters.org. October 26, 2007.

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• 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.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, Government, Liberty

  "9/11 and the Orwellian Redefinition of 'Conspiracy Theory'" by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, www.globalresearch.ca. June 19, 2011.

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• 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?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Running, Pain, Thinking

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Responsibility, Ideas

  "The people always pay". www.theguardian.com. January 21, 1999.

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, College, Kentucky

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• 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.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Hymns, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the first quarter of 2015, it is necessary to explain to the population and business what fields will be supported by the state

  Tatyana Golikova

  Fields, Firsts, States

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• As far as I'm concerned, any Aboriginal that gets out there and accepts money that has been put out as a package for this bicentenary is actually accepting blood money. We've still got people with leprosy and we still got tremendous problems. These problems have not been our problems, they're the problems of the European population of Australia.

  Warren Mundine

  Blood, Australia, People

  "The Observer Effect " with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 8, 2013.

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• People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

  Peter Ustinov

  Attitude, Rights, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact:  Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year.  Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding.  What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population.  The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, Years, Cds

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Rights, Law

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.127, Heinemann

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• A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Proportion, Units

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.14, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

  Walter Cronkite

  People, Growing, Shame

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• Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

  Studs Terkel

  Couple, Book, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Office, Effort

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• WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

  Noam Chomsky

  Awards, Presidential, Honor

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• The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

  Romano Prodi

  Recovery, Japan, Age

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• Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark.

  M. R. James

  Dark, Daylight, Fields

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