Population Quotes

• Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Population Problem, Environmental, Today

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• The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Two, Excess Baggage, People

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• Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

  Maurice Strong

  World, World Population

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• You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

  Noam Chomsky

  Force, Consumption, Distracted

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• The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Earth, Economy

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Growth, Environmental, Damage

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• If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

  Prince Philip

  Ebola, Wish, Viruses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

  Thomas W. Horton

  Victory, Environmental, Increase

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• With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

  Joe Baca

  Water, Needs, Growing

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• Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

  Gene Sharp

  Opinion, Dictatorship, Dependent

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.18, Albert Einstein Institution

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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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