#extinct

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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


#between #consciousness #contemporary #contemporary world #crying

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.


Vernor Vinge


#human #human race #physical #possibility #race

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.


John Steinbeck


#farming #human-development #production #thought #war

Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct.


Bauvard


#extinction #funny #humor #funny

We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.


George Carlin


#humanity #inspirational #pale-blue-dot #perspective #inspirational

We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its own form and purpose. We bring the thunderbolt of meaning and significance to unconscious matter, blank paper, the night sky. We are already divine magicians, already supergods. Why shouldn't we use all our brilliance to leap in as many single bounds as it takes to a world beyond ours, threatened by overpopulation, mass species extinction, environmental degradation, hunger, and exploitation? Superman and his pals would figure a way out of any stupid cul-de-sac we could find ourselves in - and we made Superman, after all. All it takes is that one magic word.


Grant Morrison


#extinction #overpopulation #superman #intelligence

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


#death #extinction #facing #forests #life

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


#bloodstream #children #extinction #fought #freedom

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.


Mahatma Gandhi


#become #creation #extinct #far #god

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.


Will Cuppy


#been #chance #extinct #good #had