Quotes About Overpopulated

#1. Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

Erica Jong

#2. Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized ... we shall have war.

Henri Bergson

#3. How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.

Becky Chambers

#4. When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Mark Twain

#5. According to the legends," he said, "the Magratheans lived most of their lives underground." "Why's that?" said Arthur. "Did the surface become too polluted or overpopulated?" "No, I don't think so," said Zaphod. "I think they just didn't like it very much.

Douglas Adams

#6. So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?

John Cage

#7. If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated - there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.

Jacob Whitesides

#9. The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

James D. Watson

#10. The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners,

Jonathan Franzen

#11. Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes, but this is not the worst of it. Wyman's slum of possibles is a breeding ground for disorderly elements.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#12. I'd kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system, I don't have any friends.

Jarod Kintz

#13. The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.

Jerry Saltz

#14. We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Michel Foucault

#16. To say that the planet is overpopulated with billions of humans is one perspective. To say that there are many planets in our galaxy that should be colonized is another perspective.

Robin Sacredfire

#17. The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#18. In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.

Wayne W. Dyer

#19. I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.

Jim Lynch

#20. Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

Nancy Kress

#21. The seventh John Smith had even conspired to have a conspiracy against himself in Argentina, with resulting civil war, so that the weapons could be tested under actual battle conditions--for the region had been overpopulated anyway.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#22. We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.

David Attenborough

#23. Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

Grant Morrison

#24. God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

Iris Murdoch

#25. My Great Ancestors Suffered A Lot.
They Never Smoked Marihuana.
Petra Hermans
September 13, 2016

Petra Hermans

#26. Yes, but nomes aren't hard to make," said Dorcas. "You just need other nomes." "You're weird.

Terry Pratchett

#27. But the funny thing about love is that you don't choose it, it chooses you.

Melody Anne

#28. Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.

Paulo Coelho

#29. I was a huge comic book fan. It's weird because the era of 'Marvel' I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it's not the one that anybody romanticizes.

John Darnielle

#30. Spartacus," I called, "how's it hanging?" Probably not too well. Once you're dead, had your organs removed, and are resurrected as an undead mummified cat, your testicles probably looked like old raisins that had rolled under the couch. Raisins didn't tend to ... hang.

Rob Thurman

#31. Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life - but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

Sarah Churchwell

#32. You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.

Matt Robinson