Extinction Level Event

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

    “The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “It is only for a little while, only occasionally, methinks, that we want a garden. Surely a good man need not be at the labor to level a hill for the sake of a prospect, or raise fruits and flowers, and construct floating islands, for the sake of a paradise. He enjoys better prospects than lie behind any hill. Where an angel travels it will be paradise all the way, but where Satan travels it will be burning marl and cinders.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)