Population Quotes - Page 27

We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what "deserving citizens" are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm - who are vulnerable through multiple vectors of demonization and marginalization - be further marginalized and disappeared by the advocacy.

It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has demonstrated many times that just building railroads doesn't get you there. You need people ready to sue them.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

I believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach out to foreign sources for energy, for raw materials. They have to reach out to the world for markets. They have to export. They have to maintain full employment. They've got a terrible population problem. So they need a stable world, in a way.

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.

A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.