Extinction Level Event

Famous quotes containing the words extinction, level and/or event:

    “Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “All’s oblique;
    There’s nothing level in our cursed natures
    But direct villainy. Therefore be abhorred
    All feasts, societies, and throngs of men!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)