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“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.”

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Book:Kant: Political Writings

Source: Kant: Political Writings

“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.”

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Author:Ina May Gaskin

“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.”

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Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.”

“Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.”

“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.”

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Book:Geology and Mineralogy: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

Source: Geology and Mineralogy: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

“Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.”

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Author:Alison Gopnik

“Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.”

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Author:William Godwin

“The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. ') That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.”

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Author:Brian Swimme

“Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.”

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Author:Alan D. Eames

“The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."”

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Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.”

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Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.”

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Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.”

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Book:The High Road

Source: The High Road

“If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal. . . . Gaia's children might never die out-provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life-but one cannot remain in the womb forever.”

“An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.”

“The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.”

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Book:Stars and Gods

Source: Stars and Gods

“A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.”

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