Quotes of: Human-species Keyword

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

David Hume

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

James Madison

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

Erik Erikson

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

Gary Hamel

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

George Gaylord Simpson

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

Dave Barry

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

James Gleick

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Jonah Goldberg

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

John Lithgow

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Rosie O'Donnell

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

Lynn Margulis

Harold: You sure have a way with people. Maude: Well, they're my species!

Harold and Maude

We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Daniel Suarez

I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.

Laurie Holden

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Thomas Paine

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

Melvin Maddocks

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

Rachel Hunter

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Alan Clark

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

Andrew Vachss

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Martin Seligman