Christian de Duve Quotes

Family planning is the only exit point of the land problem. No other solution is possible.

Our primary objective is to reduce British over-population. But many leaders of foreign nations approach us to help them get a handle on their burgeoning population.

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply the population.

Africa needs birth control far less than it needs death control.

No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion.... Indeed, abortion, legal and illegal, now has become the most widespread fertility control method in use in the world today...

The problem of burgeoning population can be addressed if we begin with women itself. And, we need to educate them and spread awareness about birth control and family planning through TV channels and newspapers.

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.

We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth.

It's about time we make welfare contingent upon birth control.

No technical solution can rescue us from the misery of overpopulation. Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

The great danger to my mind is Pakistan's inability to control its population. Of course, it's very difficult for the Muslims to have contraception, but if they put their mind to it, I think it's quite possible. It is only the radical Islamist man who actually opposes it, but there is a lot of evidence in Islamic thinking that you can actually have contraception, and prevent your population from breaking all bounds

We never use the phrase population control. It has an implication of coercion.