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«Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.»
Author: Angela Davis
| Keywords:
convert, designed, jailed, jails, keepers, obedient, population, populations, prisons, specimen, specimens, to each other, zoo, zoos
«Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
indispensable, populations, technology
«The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
amenable, broad, broads, masse, masses, population, populations, rhetoric
«It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amount, another planet, at odds, average, deranged, deranging, divided, divided by, divided up, finite, Finite number, follows, from time to time, From Zero, however, infinite, infinite number, Infinities, infinity, inhabited, inhabits, known, near, number, odds, one of them, our planet, planets, population, populations, products, space, The Planets, the universe, whole number, worlds, zero, zeros
«Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Leadership,
Peace,
Population
| Keywords:
African, armies, intimidate, missions, populations, troops
«Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
constituencies, constituency, discovered, finally, includes, made-up, percent, population, populations, program, programmed, security, social, Social Security, special, special interest, special interests, vote
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
birth, birth control, increasing, kept, opponents, population, populations, prefer, pretend, suppose
«If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
burned, likes, painting, percent, population, populations, ten, ten percent
«It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.»
«AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
AIDS, await, catastrophes, occupies, populations, privileged, represent
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