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 ~
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
~By Wendell Berry ~
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 ~
Moderation is the secret of survival.
~By Manly Hall ~
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
~By Al Purdy ~
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
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 ~
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
~By Todd Solondz ~
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
Survival is triumph enough.
~By Harry Crews ~
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
~By Jane Wagner ~
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
~By Ken Burns ~
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
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 ~
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 ~
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
~By William Glasser ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
~By Anita Roddick ~
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 ~
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
~By Jack Herer ~
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. ~
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 ~
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 ~
Survival is nothing more than recovery.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
~By Tony Blair ~
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
~By Mo Udall ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
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 ~
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
~By Carlos P. Romulo ~
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
~By Edward Everett Hale ~
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 ~
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
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 ~
I've always believed in survival.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
~By Russel Honore ~
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
~By Doug Larson ~
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
~By Steve Lacy ~
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 ~
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
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 ~
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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 ~
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
~By Andrew Young ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
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 ~
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
~By James De La Vega ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
~By Rollo May ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
~By Allen Klein ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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