Survival Quotes - page 2

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. (George Reisman)
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. View quote
Desmond Morris
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. View quote
William F. Buckley
Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival. View quote
Vanna Bonta
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. View quote
Winston Churchill
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. View quote
Richard Adams
Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results. (Oliver Lodge)
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. View quote
Bianca Jagger
survival is triumph enough. View quote
Harry Crews
Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. View quote
Louis Schwartzberg
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. View quote
Todd Solondz
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. View quote
Tom G. Palmer
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. View quote
Charles Darwin
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. View quote
Germaine Greer
Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway. View quote
Germaine Greer
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. (William Glasser)
Art is a way of survival. View quote
Yoko Ono
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but 'vector' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature. View quote
William Thomson
What we think of as ‘Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness-intelligence-among them. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein