Greatest Number

Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or number:

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world’s total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)