#Population Quotes

“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”

“No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.”

“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”

“It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.”

“When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.”

“When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.”

“In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.”

“What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?”

“The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.”

“Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.”

“Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet”

“Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife”

“Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.”

“If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

“in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you”

“India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.”

“The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.”