Extinction Quotes

202 quotes by 176 authors

Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction. — Jay Severin
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other… — Nancy Pearcey
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest… — Bill Watterson
To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting… — John Ruskin
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. — Susan Sontag
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death… — Brian Perkins
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. — Vernor Vinge
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying… — Lance Morrow
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and… — Asa Gray
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other… — Larry Kramer
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… — Henry Adams
I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction… — Stuart L. Pimm
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic… — Richard Dawkins
'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at… — Adela Popescu
After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If… — Douglas Gwyn
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. — Eric Hoffer
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then… — Bill Joy
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to… — Ludwig von Mises
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the… — Rupert Sheldrake

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