Survival Quotes - Page 24

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred.

The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.

There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!

Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

You can't look at the Noah story and not see some kind of environmental connection. The Creator wants to start over. He wants creation to be given a shot at survival, and the true enemy is the wickedness of men.

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

C'mon baby light for me!

We need to get out of this fetid pusshole and get to some higher ground.

UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.