Survival Quotes

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

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

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

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?

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Success is survival.

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.