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Quotes About Population

For billions of years, evolution has been driven by competition caused by the simple fact that, left unchecked, all living things can reproduce faster than their environment can sustain
~ Malcolm Potts
We are, as a species, in the process of proving Malthus's proposition that population will always outstrip resources.
~ Malcolm Potts
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes
Perhaps this was the greatest genius of the cyber jihadis: the monopoly they clinched on information. They realized how helplessly addicted the population had become to knowing in this information age. So what if news was tainted or unreliable? - people needed their daily fix.
~ Unknown
Sperm is the storehouse of male sexual energy. A single ejaculation has 200 to 500 million sperm cells, each a potential human being. There are enough spermotozoa lost in a single orgasm to populate the entire United States if each cell was to fertilize an egg.
~ Mantak Chia
But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.
~ Unknown
By 375 the occupancy of villas had fallen by a third, and in towns it had fallen by a half.
~ Unknown
the extreme wealth of the elite depended on the aggressive exploitation of the majority of the population, who are for the most part absent from the archaeological and written records.
~ Unknown
I can think of no better way to die than as a martyr for my race and my way of life, Smyrt said. And if the Colonial Union dies with us, then I will welcome its diluted population as our honor guard into hell.
~ John Scalzi
Dr. Gitsen did genetic typing of some of the Dalasýslans," Marce said. "Do you know what she found?" "Inbreeding?" "No," Marce said. "Well, yes.
~ John Scalzi
And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.
~ John Steinbeck
My family is very large. 42 million.
~ Nelson Mandela
China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.
~ Amartya Sen
Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.
~ Tucker Carlson
Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.
~ Gabriel Luna
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
~ Hank Johnson
The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
~ Adolf Hitler
... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
~ Bernard Beckett, Genesis
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
~ Joel Barlow
Voglio dire che mancano le motivazioni. L'unica incrinatura seria consisteva nel fatto che il suo tempo interno e il tempo esterno non coincidevano. Ma dimmi, Rosa... non credi che se questo fosse un motivo sufficiente per togliersi la vita, il nostro paese sarebbe quasi completamente spopolato?
~ Unknown
Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
~ Margaret Sanger
The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger
~ Margaret Sanger
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
~ Thomas Malthus