Han Fei Quotes

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

There's too many people in the world.

The poor are making themselves poorer through rising birth rates.

Population growth is a global problem affecting all of us.

Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.

I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

When the wages of labour are hardly sufficient to maintain two children, a man marries and has five or six.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

In most slums and cities in developing states, population growth is outpacing the ability of the growth in pollution and sewage. Such unmet expectations in over-crowded cities can be the catalyst for civil conflict.

Rapid Global population growth is an urgent and substantial threat to international stability and sustainable development. This Presidential Decision Directive articulates objectives for and guides the implementation of United States policy on population growth.

The imperatives of the population explosion, … almost inevitably will lessen our belief in the sanctity of the individual human life

So far, the United States knows nothing of the difficulties of over-population; and historic realities of a nature to hamper the free play of economic forces exist only in a very limited degree. Quite the reverse is true in Europe.

Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.'

The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fecund, that if you started out with the new continent and plenty of land for everybody, in several generations we would multiply our numbers.

My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.

Done because we are too many.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.

People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.

I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.

The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.