Survival Quotes - page 24

There is more recognition now that things are changing, but not because there is a political move to do it. It is simply a result of the information being there. Our survival won't depend on political or economic systems. It's going to depend on the courage of the individual to speak the truth, and to speak it lovingly and not destructively. It's saying what you really know and feel is the truth, in all directions. (Buckminster Fuller)
The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation. View quote
Germaine Greer
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death. View quote
Dan Aykroyd
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling. View quote
Dan Aykroyd
Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife. View quote
Dan Aykroyd
I, for one, believe we vastly overemphasize the human being's concern with security and survival satisfaction because they so neatly fit our cause-and-effect way of thinking. I believe Nietzsche and Kierkegaard were more accurate when they described man as the organism makes certain values - prestige, power, tenderness - more important than pleasure and even more important than survival itself. View quote
Rollo May
The eventual survival of the tradition is ultimately not at stake. View quote
Charles Rosen
A skepticism concerning what one beholds - whether in the arts, in the sciences, or in the deeply etched channels of fashionable response - contains a force essential to the survival of civilized man. View quote
Robert Ardrey
I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches. View quote
André Leon Talley
Evolution was a paste-and-baling-wire process that came up with half-assed solutions like pushing teeth through babies' gums and menstruation. Survival of the fittest was a technical term that covered a lot more close-enough-is-close-enough than actual design. View quote
Daniel Abraham
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? (David Gerrold)
Behaving on a still higher moral level were the astronauts who went to the Moon, for their actions tend toward the survival of the entire race of mankind. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom. View quote
James Bovard
As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world. View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. View quote
Umberto Eco
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Community is life: from it comes our capacity for survival. That is how it was when we lived in caves and so it is today. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. (Paulo Coelho)
You know, I learned at a very early age that what kind of social system or political system prevails is very important. Not just for your well-being, but for your very survival. View quote
George Soros
The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation. View quote
Marine Le Pen
I want to decide between survival and bliss And though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am But I know I won't keep on playing the victim. View quote
Alanis Morissette
The nation is gripped in her worst crisis, standing in the middle of the road between survival and disintegration. Since the birth of Pakistan, crisis has followed crisis in rapid escalation. Millions of lives were sacrificed to create this country. View quote
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto