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"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
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"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective."
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"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
"My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail."
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"In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate."
"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere."
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else."
"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"
"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future."
"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."
"Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution."
"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."
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