Top 1200 Population Explosion Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

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 times y is less than y

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

We're oppressed, I think, you know there's only 5 per cent of the world's population who are ginger? So it's a tough time for us gingers.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.

The mainline media attacks all conservatives, especially Christians, and distorts their policies and beliefs so that the local population is afraid to vote for them.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources.

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to write sketch comedy and satirical takedowns of the social hierarchies. At the same time, I was developing a love for movies at the height of the '90s New York indie movie explosion: everything from 'Rushmore' to Nicole Holofcener movies.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

With increased growth in the U.S. population, especially in urban areas, transport bottlenecks will only become more frequent and severe.

Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose.

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves.

Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the 'Beatles' especially, and then the 'Rolling Stones' and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our 'nouvelle vague' in Britain, films that talk about real life.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.

We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.

If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.