Population Quotes - Page 29

• There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

  "The Racism Barrier" by M.Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. October 3, 2003.

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• Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, World, Disease

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• I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

  Penn Jillette

  Country, Successful, Thinking

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. October 13, 2003.

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• Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.

  Meir Kahane

  Israel, Years, Growth

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• A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

  Alveda King

  Children, Abortion, Majority

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• Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

  Evel Knievel

  Country, War, People

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• Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Cities

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• The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Keys, Roots

  "How Women Can Save the Planet". The Scientific American Article, www.scientificamerican.com. November 1, 2009.

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• You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

  Lillie Langtry

  Believe, Towns, Mayors

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• I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

  Ang Lee

  World, West, Realistic

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• I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

  Annie Lennox

  Beautiful, Gay, Feminism

  "The world has become more sexualised" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2012.

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• The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

  Annie Lennox

  Gay, Thinking, Drug

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Math, Science

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• Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare, Government, Health Care

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• You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Want, Serious

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• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

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• America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

  James Madison

  Art, Agriculture, America

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• The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

  Thomas Malthus

  Mean, Numbers, People

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

  Dave Matthews

  Country, White, Percentages

  "Dave Matthews On His Band's 'Unique Sort Of Love Affair'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 8, 2012.

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• The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

  David Miliband

  Opportunity, Phones, Class

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

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• Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Japan, Aging, Problem

  "Q&A: 90 Minutes With Miyamoto, Nintendo's Master of Amusement". Interview With Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. June 27, 2008.

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• Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.

  Evo Morales

  Animal, Cities, Ddt

  "Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America". SPIEGEL Interview, www.sott.net. August 28, 2006.

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• New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

  Constance Baker Motley

  New Orleans, Cities, Atmosphere

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• One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, United States, Citizens

  "Newsweek is Wrong: Christian America is as Strong as Ever" by Jeff Schweitzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2009.

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• People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

  Joel Osteen

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Interview: Joel Osteen on Prosperity Gospel, Crystal Cathedral, and Jesus". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 29, 2012.

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