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The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes. -- George Carlin
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. -- J. M. Coetzee
I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species. -- John Hughes
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. -- Thomas Carlyle
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. -- Andreas Gursky
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize? -- Buzz Aldrin
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. -- Frans de Waal
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. -- Larry Niven
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing. -- Alison Gopnik
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
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world. -- Shinichi Suzuki
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power. -- David Gerrold
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. -- Thomas Malthus
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. -- Charles Dickens
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. -- Georges Bataille
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated. -- Albert Murray
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species. -- Robert Edwards
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income. -- Francis Spufford
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. -- Harry Johnston
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. -- Alan Lomax
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. -- Studs Terkel
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. -- Christopher Hitchens
The Human is the most insane species -- Hubert Reeves
Cities are the abyss of the human species. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I think the human species is very suicidal. -- Eve Ensler
Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species. -- Dennis McKenna
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species. -- Thomas Paine
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen. -- Margaret Mead
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens -- Katherine Applegate
People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. -- Ibn Khaldun
The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. -- William Godwin
Thermonuclear fusion is an absolute requirement, for the preservation of the human species. -- Lyndon LaRouche
The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars. -- Walt Disney
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. -- David Mitchell
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. -- Richard Dawkins
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. -- Robert Breault
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself. -- Terence McKenna
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species. -- Catherine Breillat
As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight -- Noam Chomsky
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. -- Arthur Koestler
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. -- Sam Harris
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. -- Ken Robinson
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. -- Jules Renard
I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male. -- Osamu Dazai
Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. -- Charles Studd
Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience. -- Zoltan Istvan
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. -- Aldous Huxley
Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself. -- Dean Koontz
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause -- Richard Leakey
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. -- George Washington
I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species. -- Alice Steinbach
Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. -- Ray Kurzweil
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. -- Carl Sagan
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing, -- Alison Gopnik
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of "?power' over other species. -- Ian Somerhalder
I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need. -- Peter Steele
Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species. -- Erma Bombeck
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. -- Maria Montessori
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life -- Dennis Prager
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. -- Scott McCloud
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love. -- Voltaire
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us. -- Daniel Dennett
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years. -- Norman Myers
For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. -- Warren Farrell
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. -- Joseph Rotblat
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change. -- Daniel Keys Moran
Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth. -- Will Cuppy
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy. -- Louis Kronenberger
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse. -- Robert Wright
Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species. -- Edward Gibbon
The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race. -- Bette Midler
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. -- Louis Kronenberger
The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth. -- Moses Hess
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species. -- Buzz Aldrin
We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth? -- Carl Sagan
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally. -- Immanuel Kant
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. -- Edward Gibbon
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself. -- E. O. Wilson
It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human. -- Louis J. Halle
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations. -- William Buckland
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure. -- Rick Yancey
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home. -- Zoe Helene
The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused. -- Ina May Gaskin
I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species. -- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers. -- Piers Anthony
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous. -- Carl Sagan
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species. -- Rick Strassman
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it. -- Saul Bellow
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. -- J. Philippe Rushton
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. -- Timothy Leary
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species." -- J. Philippe Rushton
We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species. -- Jose Saramago
It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years. -- Leonard Hayflick
Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter. -- Jean Houston
Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world -- Shinichi Suzuki
The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species. -- Julian Jaynes
A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black.. -- Norman F. Cantor
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents. -- Eric Hoffer
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime. -- Flora Tristan

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