Extinction Quotes

202 quotes by 176 authors

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to… — Edward Abbey
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction. — Jasper Fforde
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality… — Catharine MacKinnon
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. — Vladimir Lenin
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought… — Ronald Reagan
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less… — Samuel Johnson
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for… — Paul Johnson
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. — Barbara Block
Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of… — April Gornik
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem. — Li Bingbing
If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
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… — Rusty Schweickart
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than… — Paul Hawken
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction. — Stephen Kinzer
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat.… — Cameron Russell
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number… — John Updike
In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken,… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always… — Joel Sternfeld

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