Population Quotes

• Island of Hispaniola once so populous having a population that I estimated to be more than three million, has now a population of barely two hundred persons.

  

  Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Population
  • Estimated

• I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Location
  • Rank
  • Genus

• I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

  

  Ang Lee
  • World
  • Beats
  • Realistic

• The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

  

  William Binney
  • Goal
  • Ultimate
  • Nsa

• A species consists of a group of populations which replace each other geographically or ecologically and of which the neighboring ones integrate or hybridise wherever they are in contact or which are potentially capable of doing so with one or more of the populations in those cases where contact is prevented by geographical or ecological barriers.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Species
  • Barriers
  • Prevented

• The hegemonic powers also used religion and nationalism to preserve their supremacy. In all parts of Kurdistan, Islam is a state religion used as a tool for controlling the population. Even if these regimes embrace secularism, the entanglement of political and religious institutions is obvious.

  

  Abdullah Ocalan
  • Islam
  • Population
  • Controlling

• Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Lie
  • Population
  • Masturbates

• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  

  Moshe Dayan
  • Blame
  • Village
  • Geography

• The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  

  Cody Lundin
  • Society
  • Fitting
  • Incapable

• The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • World
  • Mean
  • Competition

• You will wonder how it was possible for me to endure the same kind of “tomorrow the world” talk that had sent me running away from Hainburg. The answer is simply that I had run out of places to run away to. Surrounded by a population that had been completely sold on monstrous ideas, I simply retreated down, down, down, trying to live in imitation of the German writer Erich Kästner, whom I had always admired and who responded to the Nazi years with what was called “internal emigration.” The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Soul
  • Ideas
  • Wonder

• Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

  

  Michael Azerrad
  • People
  • Information
  • Century

• When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.

  

  Bill Ford
  • Model
  • Cars
  • Emissions

• Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • World
  • Women
  • Control

• The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Population
  • Key thing

• In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

  

  Cecil Rhodes
  • Markets
  • Civil War
  • United Kingdom

• We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • People
  • Values
  • Damage

• I could not lead a happy, peaceful life when the working population was so terribly enslaved.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Population
  • Peaceful
  • Enslaved

• I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • Germany
  • October
  • Replaced

• After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

  

  Terence Lewis
  • Population
  • Meal
  • Realise

• Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

  

  Alfred W. Crosby
  • Nature
  • Population
  • Crash

• Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.

  

  Andre Pratte
  • Problem
  • Population
  • Quebec

• More than half of the world’s population, struggle for food – but we expect privilege.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Food
  • Struggle
  • Half

• Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Influence
  • Relationships
  • Iraq

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