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Quotes About Population

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
~ John Brunner
We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too crowded, in an environment we've poisoned with our own-uh-byproducts. Now when this happens to a wild species, or to rats in a lab, the next generation turns out weaker and slower and more timid. This is a defense mechanism.
~ John Brunner
What will he [Satan] do first? Prevent spirits from coming to earth. How will he do this? He'll do all in his power to promote abortion. He'll convince people to have no children. He will raise fears about over population and encourage governments to make laws that limit the number of children couples can have. He'll do whatever he can to keep those spirits form coming!
~ John Bytheway
Thomas Malthus (1766– 1834), mathematician and clergyman, published his Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798 , arousing a storm of abuse and controversy. By applying scientific thought to the question of population, which no one had done before, he contrived to show that it was impossible – despite the dreams of Utopian philosophers – for the whole of mankind to live in happiness and plenty.
~ John Carey
The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.
~ John Dunning
Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.
~ Dale Jamieson
In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.
~ David Klinghoffer
It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.
~ Paul Theroux
Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.
~ Mildred Blaxter
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
~ Havelock Ellis
Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people.
~ Edward L. Glaeser
Between 1950 and 2008, Detroit lost over a million people—58 percent of its population. Today one third of its citizens live in poverty. Detroit's median family income is $33,000, about half the U.S. average. In 2009, the city's unemployment rate was 25 percent, which was 9 percentage points more than any other large city and more than 2.5 times the national average. In
~ Edward L. Glaeser
I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of life if we conserve half of the planet for nature than if we consume nature entirely.
~ Edward O. Wilson
To increase density in a rat population and maintain healthy specimens, put them in boxes so they can't see each other, clean their cages, and give them enough to eat. You can pile the boxes up as many stories as you wish. Unfortunately, caged animals become stupid, which is a very heavy price to pay for a super filing system!
~ Edward T. Hall
Whenever I am worried about anything," said this guy Ben,"I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort.
~ Elif Batuman
A big problem with the population is that when it is said that the world is full of fools, the duffers who are in the majority find most of the people of their ilk only and so they consider themselves to be sane and an intelligent who looks odd either in the midst of them or outside their circle is regarded a mad or an idiot by those stupids.
~ Anuj Somany
A business organization should be ranked and rated the best and bigger than others not by its biggest profitability figures but by the big possibility created for the employment opportunity for the population of the nation.
~ Anuj Somany
A fringe minority of ordinary population put on slightly mask over mouth only at times on roads for fear of undue penalty or unnecessary tussle with the marshal, but the majority of people wear the face mask most of the time for fear of non-existent virus as their head is empty that easily believed fake news & forged stories spread 24x7 hours from all corners and channels
~ Anuj Somany
A person who has good intention to actually prevent the population from any ailment never creates any apprehension/panic situation for them, but the people who have malafide intent often try to invent & implement various ways to create the environment of fear/stressful condition even by giving virus/pathogen the different name/ variant
~ Anuj Somany
A person who is an ethically right has to only fight for own rights against the big battalion of the population, but one is wrong morally can go easily long in relationship with the billions of people.
~ Anuj Somany
A politics is just a vain blame game where all players are largely the same irrespective of their place and position on either side of the field and they just entertain the population through debate and discussion.
~ Anuj Somany
An election is not a solution and rather it is an aggravation of problem for the common population until the nation has a real opposition party in politics,not the pretentious ones.
~ Anuj Somany
An irony is that whichever political party gets the power of the nation to control the money of the population acts like tyranny towards the ordinary people and even more funny is the fact that the opposition behaves like dummy.
~ Anuj Somany
An irony is that whichever political party gets the power of the nation to control the money of the population acts likes tyranny towards the ordinary people and even more funny is the fact that the opposition behaves like dummy.
~ Anuj Somany