Win The Life

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.-Art Hoppe

 

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

 

The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those who sell diapers, baby carriages and the like have any right to believe-Chuck Palahniuk

 

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 Baines Johnson

 

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.-George Bernard Shaw

 

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.-Arnold Joseph Toynbee

 

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.-Thomas Robert Malthus

 

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.-Art Hoppe

 

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.-Chuck Palahniuk

 

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

 

The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those who sell diapers, baby carriages and the like have any right to believe - Unknown

 

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!-Helen Reddy

 

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.-David Frum

 

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.-Thomas B. Macaulay

 

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.-Ralph Merkle

 

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.-Muhammad Yunus

 

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

 

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.-Ruben Hinojosa

 

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

 

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.-David Letterman

 

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.-Arthur Hoppe

 

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.-Julia Louis-Dreyfus

 

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.-Jeremy Rifkin

 

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.-Joe Slovo

 

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.-Silvia Cartwright

 

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.-Jan Egeland

 

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.-Nigel Short

 

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.-Fredrik Bajer

 

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

 

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

 

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.-Aly Khan

 

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.-Mario Batali

 

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.-Susan Oliver

 

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.-Ernst Engel

 

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.-Emanuel Celler

 

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.-Denis Diderot

 

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.-Thomas Malthus

 

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it -snaps.Henry Ellis

 

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.-Romano Prodi

 

The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.-Graham Leonard

 

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.-Emanuel Celler

 

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.-Susan George

 

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.-Julie Bishop

 

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.-Thomas Malthus

 

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.-William Weld

 

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

 

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.-Warren Rudman

 

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.-Nicholas D. Kristof

 

The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.-Jon Porter

 

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.-Zebulon Pike

 

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.-Janis Karpinski

 

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.-Garrett Hardin

 

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.-Wendy Craig

 

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.-Barack Obama

 

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.-Josiah Strong

 

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.-Jennifer M. Granholm

 

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.-Emanuel Celler

 

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.-John Agyekum Kufuor

 

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.-Tom Vilsack

 

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.-John Goodman

 

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.-Dwight Schultz

 

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.-Jerry Costello

 

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.-Thomas Malthus

 

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.-Thomas Malthus

 

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.-John Olver

 

Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.-Ken Mehlman

 

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.-Chris Van Allsburg

 

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.-Peter Fraser

 

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.-John Olver

 

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.-Danny Glover

 

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

 

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.-Kathryn Stockett

 

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.-Oliver Goldsmith

 

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.-Peter Singer

 

If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.-Rick Santorum

 

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.-Jane Rule

 

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.-Henry W. Kendall

 

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.-Andrew Shue

 

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.-Carol Moseley Braun

 

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.-Thomas Sowell

 

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.-Jacques Yves Cousteau

 

In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.-Lin Biao

 

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.-Dave Reichert

 

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.-Jared Diamond

 

Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day.-David Rose

 

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.-Moshe Sharett

 

It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.-Agnes E. Meyer

 

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.-John Bright

 

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.-Bhumibol Adulyadej

 

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.-Iris Chang

 

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.-Peter Lynch