Death Rate Quotes

Since 1914, we have endured world wars, genocides and government-sponsored famines, not to mention civil strife, riots and murders. Altogether, we have killed a staggering 100 million to 200 million of our own kind. But over the century, about 10 billion lives were lived — which means that just 1 to 2 percent of the world’s population died violently. Those lucky enough to be born in the 20th century were on average 10 times less likely to come to a grisly end than those born in the Stone Age.

If millions are born millions must die.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

He that lives most dies most.

People die at 100 years old now. When I was a kid, people died at 67.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

My experience is, people who retire die sooner than they should have.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

Some people live. Some people die.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.