The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
~By Jane Wagner ~
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
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.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
~By Virginia Satir ~
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.
~By David Hackworth ~
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
~By Theodore Bikel ~
This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.
~By Paul Begala ~
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
~By Alan Shepard ~
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
~By George Lucas ~
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
~By George Ball ~
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.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
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.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
~By Jerry Costello ~
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.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
Survival is triumph enough.
~By Harry Crews ~
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.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
~By Audre Lorde ~
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
~By Tony Blair ~
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
~By Kay Bailey Hutchison ~
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
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.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
~By William Glasser ~
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.
~By Vic Morrow ~
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
~By Doug Larson ~
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
~By Al Purdy ~
I've always believed in survival.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
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.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
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.
~By George Reisman ~
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
~By Elias Canetti ~
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.
~By Bill Scott ~
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.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
~By Anita Roddick ~
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
~By Grace Paley ~
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.
~By Corrine Brown ~
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
~By Todd Solondz ~
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.
~By Elihu Root ~
The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
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.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
~By Robert Nozick ~
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.
~By John Edward ~
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
~By James Forrestal ~
Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.
~By Adam Schiff ~
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
~By Wendell Berry ~
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.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
~By Steve Lacy ~
If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"
~By Josiah Strong ~
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
~By M. H. Abrams ~
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
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.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
~By Virginia Satir ~
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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.
~By Linda Vester ~
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
~By Aristotle ~
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.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
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.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
~By Rollo May ~
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right.
~By Steve Blake ~
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
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?
~By Solomon Short ~
I think the American Dream for most people is just survival.
~By Sandy Scholl ~
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
~By Andrew Young ~
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
~By Ken Burns ~
The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.
~By Mary McDonnell ~
Survival is nothing more than recovery.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
~By Ike Skelton ~
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
~By Bill Cosby ~
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
~By Edward Albert ~
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
Moderation is the secret of survival.
~By Manly Hall ~
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
~By John McCarthy ~
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