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.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom, Children, Same

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert M. Hutchins

Death, Democracy, Apathy

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot

Progress, Artist, Continual

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change, Place, Last

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge

Government, Rights, United

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley

Power, Struggle, Thinking

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Jean Dubuffet

Long, Away, Goodbye

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett

Next, Landscape, Precision

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
David Suzuki

Change, Lost, Lives

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Islam, Between, Happens

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

Two, Problems, Ways

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Feeling, Hatred, Values

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
Lewis Thomas

Future, Busy, Hard

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.
John Foster Dulles

Human, Problem, Problems

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
Lester B. Pearson

Peace, War, Science

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

Peace, Once, Choice

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.
Werner Herzog

Life, Heart, Doubt

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
Heston Blumenthal

Seriously, Taken, Issues

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Wangari Maathai

Life, Death, Country

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.
John Keegan

Situation, Ourselves, Visualize

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

America, Difficult, Times

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?
Lynn Margulis

Life, Enough, Question

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
Rabbi Hillel

Learn, Deserves, Refuses

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers

Faith, Society, Sick

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
Vernor Vinge

Human, Race, Physical

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Robert T. Bakker

Land, Bridges, Species

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
Asa Gray

Great, Best, May

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.
Arthur Levitt

Again, Once, Almost

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

Death, Soul, Put

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
Ernst Mayr

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