“A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed”
Aristotle
“We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.”
Fran Ackley
“HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The greatest cause of our world challenges is overpopulation.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?”
Benjamin Franklin
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Voltaire