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Quotes About Population

more than 60 percent of the global population lives within thirty miles of a coastline.
~ Susan Casey
Felicia Boylan. I run the festivals here in town." The woman paused. "Interesting that we're all natural redheads. Only about two percent of the population has red hair. The gene itself is recessive. I believe the color is caused by a mutation of the MC1R. That's a gene that—
~ Susan Mallery
Reassurances are multiplying in the United States and Western Europe that "the general population" is safe. But "the general population" may be as much a code phrase for whites as it is for heterosexuals. Everyone knows that blacks are getting AIDS in disproportionate numbers, as there is a disproportionate number of blacks in the armed forces and a vastly disproportionate number in prisons.
~ Susan Sontag
During the twentieth century, America recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910: 14.7 percent of the population. A century later, about 40 million people or nearly 13 percent of Americans today are foreign-born citizens.
~ Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population shifts – there's an old fellow, sir, they call Death.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
You don't seem to associate them with the problems of population increase. They're just babies! And you've come to believe in them again. They're a lot more tangible than the afterlife, which, of course, you haven't believed in in ages. At least not for yourself. The afterlife now belongs to plastics and poisons
~ Joy Williams
Bogotá, como todas las capitales latinoamericanas, es una ciudad móvil y cambiante, un elemento inestable de siete u ocho millones de habitantes: aquí uno cierra los ojos demasiado tiempo y puede muy bien que al abrirlos se encuentre rodeado de otro mundo
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
People are getting older - that is a good thing - but there isn't enough funding in the system. And there's a whole number of injustices.
~ Matt Hancock
I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.
~ Maxime Bernier
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
~ Evel Knievel
But if the wolves are too numerous, or food is scarce, the number of pups in a litter may fall to as few as one or two.
~ Farley Mowat
Bush nodded. "It sounds like you've got a real diverse country down there." "Oh, yes," I said. "We are truly a melting pot." I told him about all the immigration Brazil had from Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, and so on. "We also have one of the world's largest populations of blacks, you know." "Do you have blacks in Brazil?" Bush asked.
~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Land distribution in Brazil is one of the most unfair in the world. One frequently cited statistic from the beginning of my presidency showed that 1 percent of the population controlled 45 percent of Brazil's arable land.
~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
El que ayuda a la pobreza la perpetua. Porque ¿cuál es la ley de este mundo sino que de una pareja de pobres nazcan cinco o diez?
~ Fernando Vallejo
We should not see those great displacements of capital, of labor, and of population, that legislative measures occasion; displacements that render so uncertain and precarious the very sources of existence, and thus enlarge to such an extent the responsibility of Governments.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Despoilers obey the Malthusian law; they multiply with the means of existence, and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Il Summit della Terra tenutosi a Johannesburg nel 2002 ha stimato che nel 2050 circa il 40% della popolazione mondiale avrà difficoltà a reperire risorse idriche adeguate.
~ François Reynaert
We do not realize that the massive deaths of Black males constitute the genocide of Black people (as it takes Black males to make Black babies and ensure future Black generations).
~ Frances Cress Welsing
Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.
~ Billy Graham
Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.
~ Bob Barr
We find, counterintuitively, that a small population correlates with shorter humans, and a larger population correlates with taller humans. This only makes sense in light of the FSM theory of gravity. With more people on earth today, there are fewer Noodly Appendages to go around, so we each receive less touching—pushing down toward the earth—and thus, with less force downward, we're taller.
~ Bobby Henderson
We find, counter-intuitively, that a small population correlates with shorter humans, and a larger population correlates with taller humans.2 This only makes sense in light of the FSM theory of gravity. With more people on earth today, there are fewer Noodly Appendages to go around, so we each receive less touching—pushing down toward the earth—and thus, with less force downward, we're taller.
~ Bobby Henderson
For thirty-five years now I've been compacting old paper and books, living as I do in a land that has known how to read and write for fifteen generations; living in a onetime kingdom where it was and still is a custom, an obsession, to compact thoughts and images patiently in the heads of the population, thereby bringing them ineffable joy and even greater woe; living among people who will lay down their lives for a bale of compacted thoughts.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
living in a onetime kingdom where it was and still is a custom, an obsession, to compact thoughts and images patiently in the heads of the population, thereby bringing them ineffable joy and even greater woe; living among people who will lay down their lives for a bale of compacted thoughts.
~ Bohumil Hrabal