Our Own Species Quotes

19 Our Own Species quotes by 17 unique authors

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,… — Lewis Thomas
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. — Arthur C. Clarke
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of… — Peter Singer
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we… — Bob Brown
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument… — Peter Singer
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away.… — E. O. Wilson
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across… — Loren Eiseley
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It… — C.S. Lewis
My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings:… — Peter Singer
We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in… — Stephanie Mills
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity… — George Mason
The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will… — Michael Dowd
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. — Michael Crichton
I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There… — Douglas Adams
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few… — Cesar Millan
Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative… — Lawrence Anthony
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that… — Andrew Lo
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species. — Andrew Vachss

Who Wrote These Our Own Species Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Our Own Species Quotes as follows: