Species Quotes - Page 20

• Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Men, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Violence, Brutes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Fasting, Public Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Differences, Fundamentals, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Raghavan Iyer (1987). “The moral and political writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violent resistance and social transformation”

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• The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Garbage, Would Be, Cosmos

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "Richard Bach’s 'Curious Lives'". Interview with Hulbert Cathleen, www.cathleenhulbert.com. 2005.

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• Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

  William James

  Truth, Truth Is, Categories

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, Insane, Hallucinations

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

  Maya Angelou

  Sacrifice, Long, Racism

  Source: teentalkingcircles.org

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• If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Watches, Extinction, Serious

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this.

  George Carlin

  Country, Party, Political

  Source: mikestarling.weebly.com

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• What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Stranger, Hominids

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.

  James Arthur

  Reality, Thinking, Remembers Everything

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

  James Arthur

  Imagination, Tools, Environment

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

  E. O. Wilson

  Differences, Half, World

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?

  E. O. Wilson

  Ecosystems, Majority, Gone

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come to a more ethical view of life within our communities that is more inclusive than exclusive, one that is extended even beyond our own species.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Views, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Thinking, Answers, Century

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  People, Disease, Planets

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Iron, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.282, eKitap Projesi

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• Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.

  Christopher Ryan

  Running, Careers, Presidential

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• Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.

  Sam Harris

  Life, Order, Demand

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• There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, "What was it like when you were a kid?" I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.

  David McCullough

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?

  Ann Burton

  Animal, Magic, Sloth

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mass Extinction, May, Caught

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