Able Quote by Boris Sidis

I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I…

— Emo Philips

“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species”

— Mary Balogh

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to…

— Anonymous

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.

— Adolf Hitler

“The group, whether We or You or Them, is not a new individual or organism or hyperorganism on the social scene; it has no…

— R.D. Laing

Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our…

— Michel Foucault

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

— Marilynne Robinson

Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating…

— Marc Hauser

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in…

— Joseph Beuys

To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and…

— Robert Koch

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel