Species Quotes
I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.
If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love
An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.
As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.
I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine.
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.
The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?
We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
A dog is a vehicle, you know, a dog is a window to Mother Nature and that's the closest species we have.
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.