Famous quotes containing the words general, population and/or prefer:
“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
“The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (182595)
“No man can understand why a woman shouldnt prefer a good reputation to a good time.”
—Helen Rowland (18751950)
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