Powerful Quotes
“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.”
— Helen Keller
“The rich require an abundant supply of the poor."
Voltaire
Quotes to Inspire
These quotes blow the population conversation wide open and beg the question....HOW MANY IS ENOUGH?
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1966)
There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess."
United Nations Organization
"Family planning could bring more benefits to more people at less cost than any other single technology available to the human race."
A. Toynbee
"The human race's prospects of survival were far better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves."
Sir Peter Scott - Founder of World Wildlife Fund
"You know, I have often thought that at the end of the day, we would have saved more wildlife if we had spent all WWF's money on buying condoms."
Dr. Gregg Miklashek (Millenial Alliance for Humanity)
"You may not want to hear it ... but human population and our modern life-style choices are causing physiological changes responsible for our top ten killing diseases of civilization."
Quotes by Jane Goodall
"Family planning provision is the best way to respond to critical conservation challenges. But it is an issue which is almost entirely ignored."
"Fortunately, nature is amazingly resilient: places we have destroyed, given time and help, can once again support life, and endangered species can be given a second chance."
Quotes of Logic
Bob Woodroff, ABC Journalist, Earth 2100
Bob Woodroff, ABC Journalist, Earth 2100
Bob Woodroff, ABC Journalist, Earth 2100
"If humanity expects to flourish into the 21st century, it must take action with its intellect rather than its emotional and religious paradigms that prove outdated, outmoded, and irrelevant."
John T. Noonan Jr., Nottre Dame Law
Bob Woodroff, ABC Journalist, Earth 2100
Bob Woodroff, ABC Journalist, Earth 2100
"Plato and Aristotle thought of abortion as a way of preventing excess population."
Motivating Quotes
Roger Bengston
"The point of population stabilization is to reduce or minimize misery."
Optimim Population Trust (1995)
"The optimum population of a country is the one which is most likely to produce a good and sustainable quality of life....."
Peter Berle (National Audubon Society)
"There is no issue of importance to the environmental community that is not affected by the increasing number of humans on the planet."
Denis Hayes (Earth Day)
"Global population growth is an urgent priority, and it must be addressed with substantial family planning assistance."
Lester Brown (Worldwatch Institute)
"The population problem concerns us, but it will concern our children and grandchildren even more...."
John H. Adams (NRDC)
"There will not be an environment left to worry about unless we get the population crisis under control."
Susan Jeffers - (author)
"Desperation to have a child comes from neediness, not instinct..."
Primatologist Jane Goodall
"Women everywhere must be able to choose whether to have children, how many children, and the spacing between them. This is critical for their own wellbeing. But they also need to be equipped with the knowledge as to how their choice affects the health of the planet and thus the future of their own children. For we are part of the natural world and rely on its "services" for our very survival."
Professor Stephen Hawking
"In the last 200 years the population of our planet has growth exponentially .... by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder."
The Art of Living Sustainably
Russel E. Train (World Wildlife Fund)
U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London
U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London
"Achieving and maintaining a sustainable relationship between human populations and the natural resource base of the earth is the single most critical long-term issue facing the peoples of the world and this issue will increasingly be the focus of international affairs for the foreseeable future."
U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London
U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London
U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London
"It is not prudent to rely on science and technology alone to solve problems created by rapid population growth."
Dr. David Suzuki
U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London
Philip Njuguana (Pastor - Nairobi, Kenyaa)
"Of course human numbers are at the very core of our crisis. The explosive rate of growth simply can't continue."
Philip Njuguana (Pastor - Nairobi, Kenyaa)
Philip Njuguana (Pastor - Nairobi, Kenyaa)
Philip Njuguana (Pastor - Nairobi, Kenyaa)
"When the family is small, whatever little they have they are able to share. There is peace."
Isaac Asimov
Philip Njuguana (Pastor - Nairobi, Kenyaa)
James Madison (1791)
"Which is the greater danger - nuclear warfare or the population explosion? The latter absolutely!"
James Madison (1791)
Philip Njuguana (Pastor - Nairobi, Kenyaa)
James Madison (1791)
"What becomes of the surplus of human life? ..... it is consumed by wars and endemic disease......"
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