Population Quotes - Page 20

The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave NO LEGIBLE FOSSIL RECORD.

If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears. co-author with Niles Eldridge

Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

Religion is god's population-control tool

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees.

Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and couldn't move. We had this revelation that, as tourists, we were so free to move, and here was this other population who couldn't cross borders.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union.

They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

In effect, Gore is unwittingly characterizing a large segment of the US population as the next 'Willie Horton.' This is unfortunate and counterproductive to any dialogue between those who 'believe' and those who don't.