# Quote — John Fowles, The Aristos

> Even if we could feed a population twice the size of the present world population, and feed them better than they are fed now, there is no guarantee that such an overpopulated world would be happier than a properly populated one....the state of overpopulation turns progress into regress.

- Author: [John Fowles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles.md)
- Book: [The Aristos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-aristos.md)
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> Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

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> Since the advent of atomic weapons it is clear that what matters militarily is not numbers but know-how; this situation was apparent as soon as the first machine gun was invented.

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> ...even more ominous … is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. … he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals … A visual is more interested in style than in content … A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.

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