(1451 quotes found)
“If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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 - you never go back.”
Kenny Chesney
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
Aristotle
“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading”
George Macaulay Trevelyan
“If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.”
Werner von Braun
“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”
Adolf Hitler
“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.”
Havelock Ellis
“You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement (C).A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall all the cars and no one gets hurt.If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.”
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 B. Johnson
