Survival Quotes

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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

Survival is triumph enough.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

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.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

I'm loyal to a fault - even though I've been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it's also survival of the fittest out there.

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

I've always believed in survival.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.