Survival Quotes - page 5

I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century. (Patch Adams)

We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.

Bernard Lown

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Sherman Alexie

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Frank Herbert

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Winston Churchill

Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this command is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

Aldous Huxley

Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.

Peter Drucker

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

If everybody would agree that their current reality is a reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.

Francisco Varela

Moderation is the secret of survival. (Manly Palmer Hall)

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Tony Blair

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

Margaret Haddix

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Neale Donald Walsch

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge.

Patricia Cornwell

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

Frei Otto

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

Bill Cosby

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

David Perlmutter

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. (Desi Arnaz)

Basic Survival goods are cheap, whereas narcissistic self-stimulation and social-display products are expensive. Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

Jon Gordon

It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

Jonathan Maberry

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

Elihu Root

Previous
1
...
4
5 (Current)
6
...
36
Next