Population Quotes - Page 16

• The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.

  Prince Philip

  Years, Done, World

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• I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

  Carolyn Hax

  Couple, Hate, School

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, saying the Quran says this, Quran says that, and the Afghans believe that because they speak Arabic, they think they know the language of Quran, and they know Islam better than us, let's follow them. So they simply follow them.

  Najibullah Quraishi

  Believe, Thinking, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, Two, Effort

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.14, eKitap Projesi

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• We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Law, Prison Population, Cities

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• The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

  David Foreman

  Aids Epidemic, Epidemics, Development

  "Are There Just too Many People in the World?" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities.

  Paul Watson

  Communication, Ecosystems, People

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• [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Religious, Military

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• Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Leader, Followers, Use

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.144, Oxford University Press

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• The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.

  George Reisman

  Kings, Past, Average

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• A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Thinking, Government, Citizens

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• Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Race, Order, World

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• The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

  Mark Steyn

  Long, Cost, Welfare

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• No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black population. The teachers' unions, environmental fanatics and the ACLU are just some of the groups to whose interests blacks have been sacrificed wholesale. Lousy education and high crime rates in the ghettos, and unaffordable housing elsewhere with building restrictions, are devastating prices to pay for liberalism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Party, Ghetto

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• The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Thinking, People, Historical

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• The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un tenable, as long as part of the population can vote to force the other part to support it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Army, Government, Long

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.219, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

  Dallas Campbell

  World, Lifetime

  Source: collider.com

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• Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.

  Zainab Salbi

  Order, Issues, Decision

  "'War is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, www.truth-out.org. June 7, 2011.

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• A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Long, World

  Interview with Michael Shank, www.counterpunch.org. February 22, 2007.

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• The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, Breathing, Punishment

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• Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

  John Stossel

  Government, Income, Half

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• Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Teaching, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

  Terence McKenna

  Ego, Males, Psychedelic

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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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• 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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