I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.
By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1. 5 billion people.
Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people.
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
In ten years [i. e. , 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.