Endangered Quotes

1. "Write it down. Whatever it is, write it down. Chip in into marble. Type it into Microsoft Word. Spell it out in seaweeds on the shore. We are each of us an endangered species, delicate as unicorns."
Author: Adair Lara

2. "Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all."
Author: Alexis De Tocqueville

3. "A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered."
Author: Benjamin Cohen

4. "I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did."
Author: Bindi Irwin

5. "Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total."
Author: Bobby Jindal

6. "Don't you dare," Lem barked."What?" Anderson pulled his hand to his chest. Not quite sure of the infraction he was about to commit."You were going to pick that flower."Anderson smiled and reached for it again. "It's pretty."Lem slapped his hand away. "It's endangered. Just look, don't pick.""That's what they told me about you," Anderson said, bumping Lem with his shoulder."
Author: Brandon Shire

7. "Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."
Author: Bruce Babbitt

8. "Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds."
Author: Carl Sagan

9. "Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?"
Author: Charles Clover

10. "When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered."
Author: Christopher Dodd

11. "I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the very last one that will occur to you. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water."
Author: Christopher Hitchens

12. "The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
Author: Confucius

13. "Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper."
Author: Daphne Zuniga

14. "I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive."
Author: David Mixner

15. "We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act."
Author: Don Young

16. "We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying."
Author: Douglas Adams

17. "Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves."
Author: Earl Warren

18. "The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again."
Author: Ed Koch

19. "Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped Indians."
Author: Florence King

20. "The bright image projections of the Sophoclean hero--in short, the Apollinian aspect of the mask--are necessary effects of a glance into the inside and terrors of nature; as it were, luminous spots to cure eyes damaged by gruesome night. Only in this sense may we believe that we properly comprehend the serious and important concept of "Greek cheerfulness." The misunderstanding of this concept as cheerfulness in a state of unendangered comfort is, of course, encountered everywhere today."
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

21. "The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about."
Author: Jack Hanna

22. "Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power."
Author: James Madison

23. "The homemade pie has been under siege for a century, and surely its survival is endangered."
Author: Janet Clarkson

24. "We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well."
Author: Jennifer Egan

25. "One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack of fear. And the gun shattered it; it fell to the earth and all the life had gone out of it. A dog fetched it, and the man collected other dead birds. He was chattering with his friend and seemed so utterly indifferent. All that he was concerned with was bringing down so many birds, and it was over as far as he was concerned. They are killing all over the world. Those marvellous, great animals of the sea, the whales, are killed by the million, and the tiger and so many other animals are now becoming endangered species. Man is the only animal that is to be dreaded."
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

26. "But having biologists outside the Beltway remained a problem for the adminisration. "They found they couldn't control us," Williams said... "That sort of thing just drove them up the wall. They were so used to saying 'do this,' and we'll just go away and do it. Never ask questions. The biologists had good connections with the press and national environmental group. "So eventually they said, 'Okay we're going to send you guys out to the hinterlands.'" The Regan administration began to dismantle the Endangered Species Office in D.C. Biologists have been working from regional offices ever since."
Author: Joe Roman

27. "About these developments George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police tyranny, under which the freedom of speech has become a deadly danger, science and its applications have regressed, horses are again plowing untilled fields, food and even sex have become scarce and forbidden commodities: a new kind of totalitarian puritanism, in short. But the very opposite has been happening. The fields are plowed not by horses but by monstrous machines, and made artificially fertile through sometimes poisonous chemicals; supermarkets are awash with luxuries, oranges, chocolates; travel is hardly restricted while mass tourism desecrates and destroys more and more of the world; free speech is not at all endangered but means less and less."
Author: John Lukacs

28. "Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce."
Author: Joseph Rotblat

29. "I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living."
Author: Kim Krizan

30. "One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance."
Author: King Albert II

31. "I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs."
Author: Kirk Cameron

32. "Let her go in with him."(...)"Actually, I feel quite endangered by her presence. Dont you, Lila?""Absolutely," said Lila. "She terrifies me. Right Sean?""Shit." Sean wiped a hand over his face. (...) Lila raised her eyebrows and the Viking groaned in defeat. "Never been so scared in my life. She's so small and ...wounded.""Please, Finn," said Ali, her eyes full of warmth and good humor. "Save us. You're our last hope.""F***ing ridiculous." Finn pulled a set of keys out of his pocket and shoved one into the lock."
Author: Kylie Scott

33. "Back to what? A guy who bails on you when you need him? What's Dane doing now that's more important than helping you? Fighting for the rights of endangered ferns?"I stiffened and pushed away from him, irritation jolting me out of my fugue-state. "You have no right to judge Dane or my relationship with him."Jack made a scoffing sound. "That half-assed excuse for a relationship was over the moment Dane told you not to bring the baby to Austin. You know what he should have said?...'Hell, yes, Ella, I'll stand by you no matter what you do. Shit happens. We'll make it work. Come home now and get in bed."
Author: Lisa Kleypas

34. "I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered."
Author: Lucas Papademos

35. "Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security."
Author: Margaret Jensen

36. "The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline."
Author: Norm Dicks

37. "Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground."
Author: Palahniuk

38. "It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps."
Author: Peter Straub

39. "Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the fact that tyrants and political forces of every age have been threatened by art again and again, condemned it as degenerate or poisonous, and have silenced, brutalized, or murdered artists because of their work only serves to illustrate how significant art is, that it is our one greatest power. I would even go so far as to say that the tyrant ‘understands' art more than the devotee, for the latter is generally too ‘pious' and adoring, almost like a simple-minded believer overwrought by faith who simply loves and finds everything ‘great,' whereas the former suffers the transformative threat of art more, is even endangered by it, hence their terror."
Author: Rainer J. Hanshe

40. "Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness."
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

41. "These boys have no idea what a child's play is, childhood is an endangered and fleeting phase of life for everyone around here." –Christian Ezora."
Author: Ray Anyasi

42. "As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that."
Author: Robert David Steele

43. "Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely."
Author: Russell Banks

44. "Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby."
Author: Sophie Kinsella

45. "Nothing like an endangered pocketbook to help a businessman find his conscience."
Author: Susan Carol McCarthy

46. "It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts."
Author: Thomas à Kempis

47. "We're endangered by our own success."
Author: Vernor Vinge

48. "It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales."
Author: Wavy Gravy

49. "You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it."
Author: Wilhelm Reich

50. "Endangered species are our friends."
Author: Yao Ming

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