Survival Quotes - Page 16

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.

Survival protocol says follow water out, and that's exactly what we're going to do.

I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we ate it.