Survival Quotes - Page 10

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

The fight for survival is the fight

As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race.

We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.

The more you know, the less you have to carry. The less you know, the more you have to carry.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action.

It's darker than a well diggers ass.

The same water that will kill you, drown you, give you hypothermia is the same water that will help you survive.

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

Where there is water, there are people.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.