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The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
— Jules Renard
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.
— Paulo Coelho
We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we won't make the cut.
— Moxie Mezcal
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
— Alfred Marshall
What is the largest land mammal doing with three times as many neurons as our own species?
— Frans De Waal
I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.
— Will Carling
Sodomy is as old as the human species.
— William S. Burroughs
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
— Jonathan Haidt
Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.
— Pharrell Williams
By ignoring our health and consuming unhealthy products, we are unknowingly contributing to the genetic mutation of the human species.
— Joseph P. Kauffman
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
— Julien Benda
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
— E. O. Wilson
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
— Garrett Hardin
No, she didn't want to find a cure for cancer or make the world a better place for an endangered owl species. She just wanted to be pretty.
— Devan Sipher
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
— Charles Lamb
The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything.
— M.F. Moonzajer
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
— David Attenborough
Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
— D.H. Lawrence
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
— Seneca The Younger
The human species and the global economy may well keep growing, but many more individuals may live in hunger and want.
— Yuval Noah Harari
When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.
— Louise Erdrich
A cross between two species. Doomed with the thirst of the undead for human blood, yet tormented by the gargoyle drive to protect them.
— Lisa Carlisle
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
— Marcel Proust
As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.
— Chris Milk
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
— Alan D. Eames
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
— J.M. Coetzee
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
— William Petty
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
— Harriet Martineau
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle down.
— Iain M. Banks
The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.
— Charles Lindbergh
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
— Terence McKenna
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
— Laura Wade
You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man.
— Elizabeth Richards
I turn back to the Archers, who don't look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?
— Denis Markell
I absolutely believe the species, the planet and the Universe can't survive if we function on hate.
— Wayne Dyer
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
— James Hansen
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
— Loretta Lynch
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
— Christian Lous Lange
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
— Carl Sagan
[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.
— Ellen Glasgow
The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.
— Juan Enriquez
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
— Robin Morgan
How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
— William McDonough
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
— Laurence J. Peter
We aint a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that.
— Justin Halpern
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
— Aldo Leopold
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
— Andrew J. Bernstein
The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.
— Adolf Hitler
Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The human species' foremost task and unshakable duty is survival.
— Carlos J. Cortes
Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.
— Arthur Koestler
Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.
— Stewart Stafford
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.
— Richard Leakey
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.
— Betty White
Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.
— Alain De Botton
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
— Robert T. Bakker
Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
— Christopher Cokinos
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
— C.S. Lewis
For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.
— Michael Pollan
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
— Erwin Schrodinger
Isn't that weird?" I said. "All the different types of sentient species in the universe, and we're all different, but we all drink coffee.
— John Scalzi
The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
The sexes in each species of being ... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
— Neil Turok
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
narrative is the principal way in which our species organizes its understanding of time.
— H. Porter Abbott
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.
— Asa Gray
Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.
— Robert Holden
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive.
— David Mixner
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
— Maria Montessori
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
— Ashley Montagu
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
— Thomas Paine
How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species — D.H. Lawrence
especially the male of the species — D.H. Lawrence
As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.
— Reid Scott
Without argument the species would parish.
— Gerry Spence
We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.
— Antonio Damasio
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
— Salman Rushdie
One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.
— Joe Hill
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
— Frank Herbert
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
— Cynthia Ozick