Population Quotes - Page 4

• We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

  Art Hoppe

  Naughty, Worry, Birth Control

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• We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Support, Growth

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• The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Military, Historical

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.95, GENERAL PRESS

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• There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor putting more pressure on the eco system than any other - namely the ever-increasing population.

  Chris Packham

  Ecosystems, Pandas, World

  "TV host Chris Packham: My really wild idea to tax all kids". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2011.

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• Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

  Angela Davis

  Zoos, Jail, Prison Population

  Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)

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• The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Educational, Successful

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• The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

  Noam Chomsky

  Phones, Organization, World

  Quoted in Observer, 18 Feb. 1996

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• Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that number down - don't tell me, tell the other idiots!

  Bernard Chidzero

  Numbers, Growth, Idiot

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• When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Three, World, Way

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 5, as translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1517.

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• I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.

  Helen Mirren

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Helen Mirren: 'I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

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• World population needs to be decreased by 50%

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ebola, World, Needs

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• Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, People, Giving

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• Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended, is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren?

  John Guillebaud

  Children, Couple, Two

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• We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

  Thoraya Obaid

  Issues, Challenges, Environmental

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• The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.

  John Holdren

  Country, Responsibility, Government

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• By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

  Bill Gates

  Empowering, Growth, Constantly Improving

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• If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Two, Growth, Way

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• The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

  Ted Dekker

  Land, Able, Facts

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• Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

  Paul Bloom

  Two, White, Psychology

  "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century (Toward a Theory of Moral Development)". Anthology edited by John Brockman, May 14, 2002.

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• Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Health, Free Education, Care

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• The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

  Josiah Strong

  Mean, Europe, Race

  Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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• Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Crash, Climate Change, Explosions

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• As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Country, People, Quality

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• The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death.

  Julian Simon

  Victory, World, Increase

  "Hoodwinking the Nation".

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• Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  People, Innovation, Accepting

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