Famous quotes containing the words captive and/or population:
“The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.”
—Fannie Hurst (1889–1968)
“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 (1825–95)