The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. Votes: 4
T. S. EliotExtinction is established when people only choose to exist without living Votes: 3
Constance Chuks FridaySharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. Votes: 2
Barbara BlockA widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. Votes: 2
J. G. BallardThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. Votes: 2
Susan SontagDeath is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. Votes: 2
Oliver LodgeDeath is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. Votes: 2
Oliver Joseph LodgeThe alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. Votes: 0
Ian TattersallWhat man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. Votes: 0
Ernest BeckerEXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceRacism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. Votes: 0
R. Buckminster FullerOnly sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction. Votes: 0
Richard FordFalse rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. Votes: 0
Vladimir LeninIn an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Votes: 0
David MitchellWe advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. Votes: 0
David ForemanWe have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. Votes: 0
Rob NixonI'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction. Votes: 0
Marco PantaniIf global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIn pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. Votes: 0
Paul R. EhrlichOur planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. Votes: 0
David SuzukiThe technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily. Votes: 0
Kenneth LacovaraThe folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol Oates