Extinction Quotes - Page 2

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.

The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.

This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

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 dreadful than its extinction.