Extinction Quotes
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.
If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
I love and adore men. I think their energy is so sexy, and fabulous, and active. But the imbalance in the male and female power is deadly. It is literally taking us to extinction.
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.
Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.
Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.
If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.
Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.
Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.
Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.
Every time someone tries to prevent a war from beginning...people get killed.
The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.
The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history.
In the tide pool I was riveted by fat pink sea stars sitting like satisfied gangsters and seemingly unconcerned by their exposure
Truth be told, if Islam and the Sixth Mass Extinction continue on their path unhindered, chances are worlds will collide with high casualty rates...
Learn new things. Do progressive research into what you do and find out how others outside your quarters are doing it. Dare to be excellent. Average brands easily go into extinction soonest.
You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting at the bus stop for your unfulfilled return!
Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?
I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.
I propose that the forces of corporate totalitarianism are deliberately destroying this entire world in order to sell their simulated version of it back to us at a profit.
Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence
His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.
There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs!
Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.
This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.
