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Quotes About Endangerment

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
~ Steven Brust
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
A Threat to Humanity
~ Richard Brodie
There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!
~ Michael Ben-Ari
The mountain gorilla faces grave danger of extinction - primarily because of the encroachments of native man upon its habitat - and neglect by civilized man, who does not conscientiously protect even the limited areas now allotted for the gorilla's survival.
~ Dian Fossey
I explain to him how naïve we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.
~ Elie Wiesel
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
~ Paul Valery
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
~ James Baldwin
A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.
~ W. A. H. Rushton
I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.
~ Diane Ackerman
La destrucción voluntaria de una jirafa africana o de un kagú de Nueva Caledonia, en la medida en que compromete la supervivencia misma de tales especies, es el plano filosófico y científico, quizás tan grave como el asesinato de un hombre y tan irreparabale como la laceración de un cuadro de Rafael. Acaba para siempre con un fragmento del pasado. Roger Hein.
~ Dominique Lapierre
When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you're sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.
~ Jim Starlin
He must have felt that his own health would be jeopardized if he varied his rituals.
~ Ron Chernow
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.
~ Joseph Rotblat
You can't just go and collect animals from the wild. It's totally illegal.
~ Terri Irwin
It was titled "Helping a Species Go Extinct.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
living in four parks in the state of Assam. A hundred years ago, in Africa, the population of black rhinos approached a million; it has since been reduced to around five thousand animals.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
The traumatized person's sense of their ability to protect themselves has been damaged or destroyed. They feel endangered, even if there is no actual danger in the present, because in the past they have experienced profoundly invasive cruelty and they know it is possible.
~ Sarah Schulman
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
I've certainly been in situations where I've been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question - just as almost every woman on the planet has.
~ Hari Nef
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.
~ Joseph Rotblat
I have returned to the Amazon to thank the people that were involved in my rescue and upon meeting them I realised that their life is in danger. They have asked for my help on a community-based initiation of a tourism project.
~ Yossi Ghinsberg
Then he said that he might call child services if Mom or Dad couldn't keep watch over me. The specific words he used were child endangerment.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.
~ Susan Sontag