“ None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy. ”
- Jeff Foxworthy- Copy
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“ If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ”
- Thomas Robert Malthus- Copy
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“ The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven. ”
- Graham D. Leonard- Copy
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“ We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ”
- Angela Davis- Copy
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“ Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
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“ Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. ”
- Clarence Darrow- Copy
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“ You cannot win against an insurgency that springs from the population. There's never been an insurgency that doesn't prevail against a mighty power. ”
- Jack Valenti- Copy
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“ It's been the fastest-growing population in the county and I think it will continue to grow. ”
- Jane Taylor- Copy
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“ If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ I have a feeling that the population is being utilized to carry out the dirty work. ”
- Jean Claude- Copy
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“ Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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“ And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. ”
- Richard Hovey- Copy
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“ We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation — must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, "Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state… ”
- Marquis De Custine- Copy
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“ Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race. ”
- Arthur Henderson- Copy
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“ You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all. ”
- Edgar A. Guest- Copy
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“ It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
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“ The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant,... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school. ”
- John Williamson- Copy
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“ There is no question that people need pensions, particularly given the extended lifespan we are now experiencing. By changing Fed policies to allow interest rates to rise and encouraging people to put aside some of their earnings, we can hopefully reestablish the idea that each individual is responsible for their own pension and that government programs like Social Security are only supplemental in nature… ”
- Ben Carson- Copy
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“ USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
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“ The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. ”
- Cole’s axiom- Copy
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“ If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Women constitute half the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property. ”
- United Nations report- Copy
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