Demographers Quotes

#1. In the late 1960s a woman in the poorer countries of the world typically had six children. Today the average is fewer than three. In fact, demographers now project that the world's population will begin to decline before 2050.47

Stephanie Coontz

#2. The Soviet census of 1937 found eight million fewer people than projected: most of these were famine victims in Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Kazakhstan, and Soviet Russia, and the children that they did not then have. Stalin suppressed its findings and had the responsible demographers

Timothy Snyder

#3. Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

Vladimir Putin

#4. Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#5. He plainly perceived this truth, the basis of his life henceforth, that so long as she should be alive, so long as he should have her with him, he should need nothing except for her, and fear nothing save on her account.

Victor Hugo

#6. These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

Jenny Offill

#7. One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#8. There aren't many good things don't have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. I'm sorry, ladies, but Mr. Johnson will not be making any second dates.

Angel Haze

#10. He's more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

Sara Sheridan

#11. If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

Oscar Isaac

#12. A species divided against itself will eventually fall.

Frederick Lenz

#13. In marriage reason frequently had to take second place to Harmony

Graeme Simsion

#14. The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

Calvin Coolidge

#15. In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes
in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

Soren Kierkegaard

#16. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

Aberjhani

#17. After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

Maeve Binchy

#18. The philosophy of project-based homeschooling - this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers - is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children.

Lori McWilliam Pickert

#19. The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.

H. P. Blavatsky