Population Quotes - Page 13

• When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive.

  Maia Szalavitz

  War, Home, June

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• Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life Changing, Ideas, Years

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.296, e-artnow

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• Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses that have wiped out huge populations. So, we're dealing with something that the CDC hasn't seen before, but it comes from a virus. That's something that's based in reality, and then you put the science fiction on that and it's a really interesting combination.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Real, Epidemics, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.

  Michael Leiter

  Home, Law, Community

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I had actually, after the Paris attacks in this country, we all patted ourselves on the back and said, "Well, we have a much more assimilated Muslim population here than they do in Europe."

  Dalia Mogahed

  Country, Europe, Paris

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities.

  Roger Corman

  Cities, People, West

  Source: collider.com

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• A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not available to the general population, if you want to put it that way. They're interesting and unpredictable. Characters always have to break some sort of bound or other to be interesting. It also helps if they're paradoxical.

  William Monahan

  Character, Interesting, Criminals

  Source: collider.com

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• What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Xenophobia, Racism

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• Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, America, Liberty

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• The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

  John Stossel

  Government, America, Giving

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• The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Three, Fertility

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• Arcitc Harp seal pup populations are declining as they are commercially hunted for oil and fur and global warming causes the ice where pups are born to break up and melt. Now these sweet and adorable pups face yet another human threat: oil spills.

  Zoe Helene

  Sweet, Ice, Oil

  "Winter Wonderland: Artisan Gifts for Arctic Wildlife" by Zoe Helene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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• There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

  Jeri Ryan

  Believe, Chunks

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• 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.

  Sam Walton

  Years, Opposites, Long

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• In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

  Yehuda Levi

  Europe, America, Energy

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• Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At the same time, the greenbelt laws eliminate the possibility of the unchecked expansion of a city into a monstrous megalopolis. If there is a need for additional homes, a new city must be established.

  Yehuda Levi

  Wall, Home, Cutting

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• To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.

  John Holdren

  Country, Law, Growth

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• Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

  Ali Babacan

  Strong, Labor Force, Quality

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• In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Europe, Parent, Density

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• 50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!

  Jay Leno

  Men, People, Romance

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• While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Eight, Iron

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• Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, New York, Kings

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• Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

  Elif Safak

  Believe, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

  Elif Safak

  Europe, Turkeys, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.

  Enele Sopoaga

  People, World, Living On

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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