Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
'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.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
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 ~
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
Survival is nothing more than recovery.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
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 are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
~By William Glasser ~
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
~By Russel Honore ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've always believed in survival.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
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 ~
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
~By Ty Cobb ~
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
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 ~
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.
~By David Duke ~
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 ~
Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.
~By Adam Schiff ~
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 ~
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
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 may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
~By Tony Blair ~
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 ~
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
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 ~
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 ~
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
~By John McCarthy ~
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
~By Hans Selye ~
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
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!
~By George Lincoln Rockwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
Survival is triumph enough.
~By Harry Crews ~
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.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
Moderation is the secret of survival.
~By Manly Hall ~
I think the American Dream for most people is just survival.
~By Sandy Scholl ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
~By James De La Vega ~
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
~By Iggy Pop ~
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
~By Bill Frist ~
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 ~
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
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.
~By James J. Gibson ~
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 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.
~By Albert Claude ~
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 ~
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
~By Grace Paley ~
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 ~
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
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.
~By Nick Nolte ~
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
~By Aslan Maskhadov ~
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 ~
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
~By Anita Roddick ~
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. ~
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
~By Allen Klein ~
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
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 ~
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
~By Mo Udall ~
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.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
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 ~
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
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.
~By Larry Harvey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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