Human Effect Quotes

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Any president's actions have real consequences in real people's lives.

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth. We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are. It's easy to put them aside, and the media don't talk about them.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.