“And is it a wonder that all individual life is extinguished?”

“Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark.”

“Life is that which can hold a purpose for three thousand years and never yield. The individual fails, but life succeeds. The individual is foolish, but life holds in its blood and seed the wisdom of generations. The individual dies, but life, tireless and undiscourageble, goes on, wondering, longing, planning, trying, mounting, longing.”

“The crime,” said the Jacynth softly, “is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.”

“Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.”

“Does not, as fire dropped upon water is immediately extinguished and cooled, so, does not, I say, a false accusation, when brought in contact with a most pure and holy life, instantly fall and become extinguished?”
Nonne, ut ignis in aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur?

“We will be one of the extinguished species. The good news is that life on the planet will recover and peace will return to the environment.”

“All of our boasted wealth, wonderful inventions and incalculable mechanical power will prove to be an unstable foundation if we continue to dwell together in strife—individual against individual, class against class, nation against nation.”

“I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”

“It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”