#species

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#endangered species #exaggeration #longer #middle-class #say

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species. ↗

— John Hughes

#human #human species #i #kids #lower

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. ↗

— David Hume

#bad #distinct #float #good #greatest

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. ↗

— Dave Barry

#many #real #real threat #species #threat

We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or even know) about the extraordinary and unnatural suffering that humans inflict on the animals that we freely harvest for food, with the help of modern high technology and the animal food sciences. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#food #speciesism #vegan #food

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#life

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. ↗

— Alan Clark

#better #help #how #know #more

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. ↗

— Julien Benda

#died #history #jesus #jesus christ #smile

We all know interspecies romance is weird. ↗

— Tim Burton

#animals #biology #genetics #interspecies #love

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. ↗

— Al Capp

#books #capital #certain #critique #every