Best 1668 quotes in «survival quotes» category

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

It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face.

It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for what sake? Not health, not survival, no enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that.

It's a game changer, not a game ender.

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

It's darker than a well diggers ass.

It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.

It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.

It's probably one of the worst places I've been.

It's time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to the point that our very survival is at risk for the kinds of monstrosities that are flourishing in our corporate media dominated discussion.

It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

I've always believed in survival.

I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all and the foundation for our collective survival.

It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.

I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Learn to live on the edge.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

Let's go Matt; we aren't strolling through Central Park here.

Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.

Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

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

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.

Looking good Matt, you look like a money.

Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.

I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.