#population

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#family-planning #population-control #poverty #family

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#eventually #finite #growth #must #only

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#biological #calling #chemical #denser #natural

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

— Garrett Hardin

#course #evidence #growth #growth rate #might

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#interplay #know #none #population #potentialities

Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#especially #expectations #far #generation #gentlemen

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#financed #large #left #long #our

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

— Ruben Hinojosa

#largest #nation #our #population #today

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#any #appeal #broad #force #masses

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council. ↗

— John Hume

#city #city council #council #divided #eight