“As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.” WellsMayInvolvedSpeciesDiscriminationUncomfortablePhenomenon Author:Will Self
“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.” MenMayDoeRunningDiesEvilCausesCommunityMoralRiskSourceDiseaseLosingLaborMadnessWineSpeciesPreservesPoisonDisorderIdlenessQuarrelsBrutesVigorDegradeAversion Author:Francois Fenelon
“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.” MenWayMayPhilosophyAnimalProduceSpeciesSuperiorsBeesCocoonsHives Author:Hippolyte Taine
“Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.” MayLongReasonActionSpeakJourneySpeciesFishesCreatorCommandDespiseUnreasonableResistingLong Journey Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46) Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)
“We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.” WorldGivingMayEndsStoriesRealityIndividualWishChanceCrazyBrokenFortuneSpeciesRefuseDenyGood FortuneAmazing ThingsBroken World Author:John Green
“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.” FirstsHumansMayWholeGoneFirst TimeSpeciesHuman Species Book:To Jerusalem and Back Source: To Jerusalem and Back