In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“The question today, then, is whether the world's populations are not close to having done with soft sciences and technologies, which still… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“Never counted in the "costs" of war are the dead birds, the charred animals the murdered fish, incinerated insects, poisoned water sources,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? How, for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe,… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point beyond which… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image