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Quotes about Population

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom.
— Amos 1:6
I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
More than five billion
— Peter Kreeft
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
— Charles Dickens
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In 1797 a member of Congress argued that, while a liberal immigration policy was fine when the country was new and unsettled, now that America had reached its maturity and was fully populated, immigration should stop—an argument which has been repeated at regular intervals throughout American history.
— John F. Kennedy
Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.
— Jim Elliot
the Catholic Church not only didn't oppose abortion but actually regulated it until the mid-nineteenth century. It was made a mortal sin mostly for population reasons.8 Napoleon III wanted more soldiers, and Pope Pius IX wanted all the teaching positions in the French schools—plus the doctrine of papal infallibility—so they traded. Also
— Gloria Steinem
Also, despite the belief of population experts that uneducated women wouldn't use birth control, these women knew very well when their own bodies were suffering from too many pregnancies and births. That's why as prime minister, Indira Gandhi took on the controversy of creating the first national family planning program. Her early journeys in those women-only cars had taught her that ordinary women would use it, even if in secret, and literacy had little to do with it.
— Gloria Steinem
A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people who previously lacked the money or skill now to begin buying and using a product and doing the job for themselves.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?
— Cormac McCarthy
There are over seven billion of us today.
— Jane Goodall