Quotes About Overcrowding

Nobody goes there anymore, it's to crowded

There are too many people for this town. - China, about Roarhaven

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

The hospitals are all full to overflowing, no one is properly looked after there, and once a man lies down on it, he is only so much nearer to being dead. Men die all around one. It gets on a fellow's nerves, alone there among it all, and before he knows where he is, he has made another himself.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

I don't see the world getting any better; like you I see it getting worse. I see liberty being strangled like a dog everywhere I look, I see my own country overwhelmed by ugliness and mediocrity and overcrowding, the land smothered under airstrips and superhighways, the natural wealth of a million years squandered on atomic bombs and tin automobiles and television sets and ball-point fountain pens. It's a sorry sight indeed; I can't blame you for wanting no part of it.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

overcrowding and poverty, that defied description, as

When a hospital is very crowded, there will be a real push to make sure people get their X-rays, get their tests and, you know, 'Let's get them out in four days'.

a consequence of overcrowding inside the city during the summer heat that plague broke out in 430 BCE.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

At first the solution was to build more prisons and cram more people into them, but that soon became prohibitively expensive. (Here Ed flicks through a few more slides.) Not only that, it resulted in platoons of prison graduates with professional-grade criminal skills they were more than willing to exercise once they were back in the outside world.

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.

Civilization is come. It has shut up a million of men within an area of four square leagues; it has stalled them in streets, houses, apartments, rooms, and chambers eight feet square; after a time it will make them shut up one upon another like the tubes of a telescope.

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

eventually three passengers crowded into every seat designed for two.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

If you stuffed a ship full to bursting point with human bodies, there would be such loneliness that they would all freeze.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

The trains either don't run at all or come so full that it is impossible to get on them.

I do think we're at a point in our history where almost all of the big, grand, challenges faced by the human race are those that demand a scientific solution: climate change; access to clean water; over-crowding; plastic waste.

Force people to live on top of one another like that," says Al Lovejoy as he describes the townships he knows intimately, "and you are bound to pick up social stress that expresses itself in violence. What I could never understand is why there wasn't more violence.