Katie Hafner Quotes

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

We need to encourage all those things among Whites that will increase their birthrate…. Polygamy? Will it increase our birthrate? If so, then it is good.

Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

Demography is destiny.

Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

I just want to have a lot of kids.

We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.

Culture is another dimension.

Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.

Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.