(1451 quotes found)
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio”
Thomas Robert Malthus
“You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper.”
Ted Nugent
“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.”
Bertrand Russell
“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
“The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.”
Bill Bryson
“The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.”
Mario Batali
“The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places”
Baltasar Gracian
“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
“Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.”
Chris Rock
“Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line, and once you go southern, may the good Lord help you never go back.”
Kenny Chesney
