Best Own Species Quotes
44 Own Species quotes by 40 unique authors
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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
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A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he…
— Jonathan Swift
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
— Voltaire
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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only…
— Thomas Szasz
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For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
— Michael Crichton
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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and…
— Mark Twain
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I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155
— James Patterson
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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
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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
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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
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Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.
— Stephenie Meyer
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His…
— Ambrose Bierce
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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate…
— Ruth Ozeki
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The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice…
— Frans de Waal
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Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them…
— Seth Shostak
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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
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Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed,…
— William James
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We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
— Andrew Vachss
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The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to…
— Muhammad
Who Wrote These Own Species Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 44 Own Species Quotes, led by these top contributors: