Quotes About Impact

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

Globalization is very destructive to our species.

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.

Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily need to be big; the show is specifically created for a small group of people. You know, if it's on the USA network, well, then a small group of people is fine.

I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for, specifically, but I want it to be a change I make in the world with my music.

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.