Best Extinction Quotes

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

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

Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time…? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I’m a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

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

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene – the Age of Man.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

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

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

Only sometimes you can’t feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

So why don’t we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required – we could party our way into extinction!

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

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

[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least – call it a mechanospiritual sense – we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

Why fight the ‘natural’ (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this–one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what’s more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

There’s no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

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

All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.