Quotes about population

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.

— Graham D. Leonard

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

— Thomas Robert Malthus

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

— George Bernard Shaw

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

— Gore Vidal