Interesting and wise quotes

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
George Bernard Shaw

"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?"
Unknown

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
William Hazlitt

"The cold absolute truth is much more preferred than a kind and uncertain lie."
Gabe Suico

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
Winston Churchill

"You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you live in torment if you don't trust enough."
Unknown

"We often despise what is most useful to us."
Aesop

"Only after the last tree has been cut down;
Only after the last fish has been caught;
Only after the last river has been poisoned;
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten."
Indian Prophecy

"In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, 'I am only boring under my own seat.' 'Yes,' said his companions, 'but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you.'"
Talmud (not to be confused with the Talmud of Jmmanuel)

"The time has come and gone to just bluntly accept and believe what is
told and said, but the time has come to learn, think, analyze and to
KNOW."
Jacob – FIGU forum

"Its just obvious that you can't have open immigration and a welfare
state."
- Noble award-winning economist, Milton Friedman

"If government knew how, I should like to see it check,
not multiply the population."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage."
- Jacques Cousteau

"...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot
survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more
and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines,
it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. The more people
there are, the less one individual matters."
- Isaac Asimov

"I am convinced that some political and social activities and
practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even
dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention
here only the fight against birth control at a time when
overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the
health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace
on this planet."
- Albert Einstein -- letter, 1954

"The leadership are fooling themselves. Overpopulation is a very serious
problem, and over immigration is a big part of it. We must address
both. We can't ignore either."
- David Brower, The late Sierra Club hero who was nominated three times
for the Nobel Peace Prize. Outside Magazine, July 1998

"Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the
world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine,
riots, insurrection and war."
- Robert McNamara, Former World Bank President

"Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not
yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by
means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is
lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal
consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the
billions who are its victims."
- Rev. Martin Luther King

(The last eight were provided by Norm from the FIGU forum, thanks.)