104 Quotes About Species
- Author GaryLFrancione
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We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.
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- Author Rajesh`
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All living species on our planet are intelligent, for they have managed to survive, communicate, learn, build and grow amidst the changing backdrop of nature.
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- Author Akif Pirinçci
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Everyone wants to rule the world . . . Really, absolutely everyone. That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's always about in the end. And every species believes it's number one. Every individual is firmly convinced that he or she alone has the right to ascend to the throne and issue orders to get rid of others. And in reality everyone is fooling themselves, because up there on the throne it's lonely and cold.
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- Author Peter F. Hamilton
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I love humans, all humans. I often think that perhaps I was born into the wrong species.
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- Author Steven Magee
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When humans organize into corrupt governments, they become a globally dangerous species.
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- Author Mark O'Connell
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Humans, after all, weren’t actively hostile toward most of the species we’d made extinct over the millennia of our ascendance; they simply weren’t part of our design. The same could turn out to be true of superintelligent machines, which would stand in a similar kind of relationship to us as we ourselves did to the animals we bred for food, or the ones who fared little better for all that they had no direct dealings with us at all.
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- Author Denis Markell
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I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?
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- Author Israelmore Ayivor
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The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant; just prepare to deal with it!
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- Author M.F. Moonzajer
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The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything.
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