(255 quotes found)
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road”
Voltaire
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Charles Darwin
“There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection”
John Locke
“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
Rudyard Kipling
“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation”
“Cities are the abyss of the human species”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.”
Anthony Storr
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are only here because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.”
Bill Bryson
“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.”
George Bataille
“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
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