Own Species Quotes

44 Own Species quotes by 40 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
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. — Frederick The Great
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
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,… — William Buckland
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
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between… — Peter Singer
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
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally… — Richard D. Ryder
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
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state. — Joseph Sobran
I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview. — Gary Larson
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
...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
He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the… — Porphyry
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species. — Aldous Huxley
Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and… — Benjamin Hoff
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
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr
I never liked my own species. — Gary Larson

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