(1451 quotes found)
“A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski
“No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.”
J. Michael Straczynski
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, ''Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.''”
Marquis De Custine
“About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the most secure individuals in our society, who comprise perhaps five or ten per cent at most.”
Abraham Maslow
“Population and immigration are very difficult issues to discuss. Democrats and Republicans alike - for very different reasons - avoid it,”
Gaylord Nelson
“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism”
John Updike
“If Oprah falls into the hands of Scientology, who can tell what influence she might have on the population? The prospect is terrifying.”
Oprah Winfrey
“It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.”
W. H. Auden
“This kind of weapon can't help but have an effect on the population as a whole”
Ronald Reagan
“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
Prince Phillip
