Survival Quotes

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.

Everything that's going on within the peloton - there's about ten different races going on. There is also a survival element to it - I love the fact that it's so epic. You crash on a bike, the first thing you do is try and get back up on it. No whinging!

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

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

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.