Quotes About Population

As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.

There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

We know that, over the past 10,000 years, larger polities consistently outcompeted smaller ones, with the result that 99.8 percent of people today live in countries with populations of one million or more.

The first cities and states arose 5,000 years ago. One of these archaic states, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (2650–2150 BCE), the one that built the Great Pyramid of Giza, had a population of between one and two million, which is beginning to approach the social scale of the most complex social insects, ants and termites. The

In other words, the important statistic is the risk of violent death for each person. To illustrate this point, there were 49 homicides in Denmark in 2012 (population: 5.6 million), so the chance of any particular Dane being murdered that year was less than one in 100,000. But in a typical small-scale society, with a population of, say, 1,000, 49 homicides would translate into one chance in 20 of being murdered. As

Malthusian-Ricardian theory predicted that an increasing population would result in a specific progression of effects. Rents would rise first, with grain prices lagging behind rents, the price of industrial goods lagging behind grain prices, and workers' wages bringing up the rear. The evidence showed that this was precisely what happened (until the whole system was dramatically changed in the nineteenth century).

Everyone's got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn't noticed." He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.

even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do.

dünyan?n iki buçuk milyar nüfusundan yaln?z bir tek insan üzerinde ?srar?n bir monomaniden ba?ka ad? var m?d?r?

While the entire US population has increased by about a third since 1980, the federal prison population has grown at an astonishing rate – by almost 800 per cent. It's still growing – despite the fact that federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 per cent above capacity. Even though this country comprises just 5 per cent of the world's population, we incarcerate almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

The influx of immigrants into Britain, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s (numbers have been limited since the passage of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1962), has also added to the diversity of the population and to linguistic differences.

The United States has experienced analogous problems of concentration but has a much larger nonwhite population, African Americans

I stressed to Neto that the way we treat the population is key to gaining their support. . . . I stressed how the thuggish behavior of the FNLA (robberies, assaults, murders, rapes, unbelievable savagery) engenders widespread hatred even among people who are not politicized. Later, there will be [time for] propaganda, political education, . . . but simply treating people well . . . can garner the massive support of the population.50

South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.

It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery.

When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space... It allows us to see hidden temples and tombs and pyramids and even entire settlements.

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.

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.