Population Quotes - Page 25

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.

Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.

Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especially poor minorities, are viewed as predators, a threat to corporate governance, and are treated as disposable populations.

Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

Critics, often for good reason, are concerned that the Fed is wielding its vast powers in the interests of the banks and not in the interests of the people. After the financial crisis, Americans have perceived that the banks have been bailed out, but a significant proportion of the population is still in serious economic trouble.

Most progressive critics don't want to destroy the power of the Fed to regulate the macroeconomy and finance. They want to regain control over it so that it better serves the interests of the whole population.

The right wants to destroy the power of the Fed to increase the power of finance; and the progressives want to reorient the Fed so that it will stop protecting the interests of finance and protect the interests of the broader population instead.

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.