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  • Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow.

    -John Kilian Houston Brunner
         POPULATION EXPLOSION1969  Stand On Zanzibar,'The Hipcrime Vocab'.

  • The military system is, to a substantial extent, a method whereby the population provides a subsidy to the high technology industry.

    - (Avram) Noam Chomsky
      Interview, Public Broadcasting System, 4 Nov.

  • Consider Ireland. Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Churchand in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

    - Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
      Speech, House of Commons,16 Feb.

  • I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      The Vicar of  Wakefield, ch.1.

  • Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in arithmetical ratio.

    -Thomas Robert Malthus
      An Essay on the Principle of Population.

  • All the immediate checks to populationseem to be resolvable into moral restraint, vice and misery.

    -Thomas Robert Malthus
      An Essay on the Principle of Population.

  • A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

    -John Stuart Mill
     Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

  • Hardlyany of the women, who are a full half of the population, work; or if they do, then as a rule their husbands lie snoring in bed.

    - SirThomas More
      Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

  •    In any case you Papists have no right to complain! If you won't have contraception how can you control the

    -Cruise
    A PINTOF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLYMAN. 1939  At Swim-Two-Birds, ch.1,'The Workman's Friend' (as Flann O'Brien).

  • It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants† It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.

    - Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
      In Praise of Idleness,'Modern Homogeneity'.

  • Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his Government a Fair Deal.

    - Harry S Truman
      Speech to Congress, 6 Sep.

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