Population Quotes - Page 7

• The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.

  Tariq Ali

  Oil, Principles, United States

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• During the first campaign, one of my jobs as my husband's spouse was to travel around the country and really listen to women. There were voices that were new to me: the voices of military spouses, many of them women, and veterans.... I was overwhelmed by their challenges, and the notion that we as a country don't even know that these women exist, because we live in a country where one percent of the population protects the rights and freedoms of the other 99 percent of us. I thought that if I had the opportunity to serve as First Lady, I was going to use this platform to be their voice.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Jobs, Husband

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

  Oliver Stone

  Hurt, War, Punishment

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• I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Moving, Ideas, Disease

  "Q and A with Malcolm". gladwell.com.

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• There are shows, a lot of small cable shows like Breaking Bad, where in the general population nobody watches them really, but everybody in Los Angeles in the industry watches them, and to get a small role on a show like that actually, in some respects, advances your career more than having a huge hit role on a genre show because they are somehow dismissed as a secondary market in this industry

  Misha Collins

  Careers, Watches, Roles

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• God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Practice, Justice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Years, Malaria

  "Charting a Course to End Malaria" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• We have a tremendous opportunity to try to start solving some of our overwhelming problems with population related environment, related to the hatred that exists between countries and religions, so we have a tremendous opportunity, but the dangers are very clearly there.

  Hugh Hefner

  Country, Opportunity, Hatred

  "Cold War/ Make Love Not War". Documentary, History, nsarchive.gwu.edu. 1998.

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• In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, World, Faces

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

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• Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Research, World

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. May 24, 2002.

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• In general, advertising isn't a "creative" atmosphere. It's a business atmosphere and your job is puzzle solving. My favorite aspect of the business, I guess, was presenting to clients. What I enjoyed least were the clients. Worried corporate brand managers, trying to dumb-down their ads for the stupid American population. I hated the disrespect that these people had for "consumers."

  Augusten Burroughs

  Jobs, Stupid, People

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Stars, Simple, Thinking

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I think the general population of people just don't think. It's actually proven that people just use the part of the brain they have to, to get through the day. They don't sit there and ponder over the big picture stuff.

  Mitch Lucker

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• I'm doing all that I can to prod the industry and get them to pay more attention [to larger women and petite women]. Because I find it to be reprehensible and repugnant that two populations that are so pervasive in this nation should be so badly neglected.

  Tim Gunn

  Two, Attention, Pay

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, People, Community

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and the nation in how they organize the non-market aspects of society.

  Milton Friedman

  Quality, Aspect, Organize

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations.

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Goal, Germany

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, Talking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.

  Terry Gilliam

  Running, Nice, Ipods

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.

  Dean Spade

  Law, Racism, Focus

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.

  Dean Spade

  Hate, Mistake, Winning

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what "deserving citizens" are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm - who are vulnerable through multiple vectors of demonization and marginalization - be further marginalized and disappeared by the advocacy.

  Dean Spade

  People, Reform, Citizens

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• When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Zero, Growth, Would Be

  Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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• Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls "white bourgeois freedom."

  Dean Spade

  White, People, Black

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.

  Dean Spade

  Military, Names, Priorities

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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