Famous quotes containing the words human and/or population:
“O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)