Famous quotes containing the words species and/or infecting:
“Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits—inasmuch as these two species always exist—occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)