Species Quotes

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

Dandyism is a species of genius.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Each individual is a species unto him/herself.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

We're the only species that listens to Michael Bublé when we have sex. That's gotta be wrong.

I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."

The Human is the most insane species

Grief is a species of idleness.

Endangered species are our friends.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

Humans need to be a multiplanet species.

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.

I never liked my own species.

How do we love all the children of all species for all time?

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

We are a very, very unusual species.

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

Like species, couples die out or evolve.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.