Survival Quotes
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During this period, Japans 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. (Quote by - Hideki Tojo)
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. (Quote by - Luis Bunuel)
I think the American Dream for most people is just survival. (Quote by - Sandy Scholl)
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction. (Quote by - Robert Nozick)
We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that. (Quote by - Wendie Malick)
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. (Quote by - Virginia Satir)
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American peoples lives instead of your life, youre going to be okay. (Quote by - Paul Begala)
The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israels survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. (Quote by - George Ball)
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my fathers fortitude. (Quote by - Desi Arnaz)
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes its just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it. (Quote 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. (Quote by - John Edward)
And in reality, I dont think its a real documentary. Its more a story of her life. Its a story of survival. Its a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure. (Quote by - Maximilian Schell)
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. (Quote by - Ty Cobb)
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. (Quote by - Albert Claude)
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. (Quote by - Virginia Satir)
Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people cant afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. (Quote by - David Hackworth)
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. (Quote by - William Glasser)
Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival. (Quote by - Robert Ardrey)
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think its a very poor scheme for survival. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
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." (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. Its no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. Its a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. (Quote by - Ty Cobb)
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. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
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. (Quote by - Jack Schwartz)
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. (Quote by - Tom G. Palmer)
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack. (Quote by - James Forrestal)
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?" (Quote by - Josiah Strong)
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. (Quote by - George Lucas)
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. (Quote by - Leonard Baskin)
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isnt the right word. I call it survival. (Quote by - Russel Honore)
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
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. (Quote by - George Reisman)
Babies act out when theyre hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival. (Quote by - Marilu Henner)
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? (Quote by - Solomon Short)
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture. (Quote by - Nursultan Nazarbayev)
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. (Quote by - Oliver Joseph Lodge)
Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation. (Quote by - Adam Schiff)
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. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. (Quote by - Rutherford B. Hayes)
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. (Quote by - Hans Selye)
He 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. (Quote by - Oliver Joseph Lodge)
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. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
I havent seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I dont know how it will stack up with Survival, but thatll be up to the critics. (Quote by - Vic Morrow)
As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. (Quote by - Bebe Moore Campbell)
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. (Quote by - Jerry Costello)
The mothers 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. (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)
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. (Quote by - Corrine Brown)
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. (Quote by - Steve Lacy)
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. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
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. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level. (Quote by - Edward Albert)
I may find Saddam Husseins regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. (Quote by - Wendell Berry)
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. (Quote by - Elihu Root)
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. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Everyone was searching for a formula for survival and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct that's all you had to go on. (Quote by - Carolyn Kenmore)
Ive always believed in survival. (Quote by - Hugh Leonard)
A collected poems is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. (Quote by - Al Purdy)
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. (Quote by - George W Bush)
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. (Quote by - Ike Skelton)
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. (Quote by - James J. Gibson)
In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes. (Quote by - Susan Kaufman)
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)
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 peoples freedom and security. (Quote by - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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. (Quote by - Ibrahim Babangida)
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, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
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! (Quote by - George Lincoln Rockwell)
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. (Quote by - Grace Paley)
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. (Quote by - Andrew Young)
Survival is triumph enough. (Quote by - Harry Crews)
Mans 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. (Quote by - Norman Borlaug)
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. (Quote by - Steve Blake)
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. (Quote by - Raoul Vaneigem)
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 dont think this is heavy. (Quote by - Joni Mitchell)
Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth. (Quote by - Joanna T. Steichen)
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. (Quote by - Todd Solondz)
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. (Quote by - Anita Roddick)
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. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. (Quote by - M. H. Abrams)
There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival. (Quote by - John Cory)
And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street, heat his coffee and eat a can of beans ... with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival. (Quote by - David Douglas Duncan)
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. (Quote by - Timothy Garton Ash)
As I was examining my past I realized I started out as a baby. Unfortunatly so did my brother. My mother did not put all of her eggs in a basket so to speak. After I was born my mother had a new son who taught me the meaning of survival of the fittest. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. (Quote by - John McCarthy)
This generation has given up on growth. Theyre just hoping for survival. (Quote by - Penelope Spheeris)
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. Thats what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, its the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. (Quote by - Aslan Maskhadov)
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the "Survival of the fittest", is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Education is a precondition to survival in America today. (Quote by - Marian Wright Edelman)
Humor can be one of our best survival tools. (Quote by - Allen Klein)
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. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival. (Quote by - Shirley Hufstedler)
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. (Quote by - Ken Burns)
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. (Quote by - Barbara Ward)
Fear of destruction and imminent danger are those that will ultimately drive us forward onto survival in the future. (Quote by - William Floyd)
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. (Quote by - Bianca Jagger)
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. (Quote by - Stephen Hawking)
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. (Quote by - Sam Fuller)
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. (Quote by - David Duke)
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. (Quote by - Kenichi Fukui)
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. (Quote by - Simon Wiesenthal)
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. (Quote by - Taylor Caldwell)
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
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. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
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. (Quote by - Alan Shepard)
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. (Quote by - Jane Wagner)
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest... The American beauty rose can be produced in the splendour and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. (Quote by - John D Rockefeller)
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. (Quote by - Katherine Dunn)
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. (Quote by - Stephen Jay Gould)
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. (Quote by - Dave E. Smalley)
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. (Quote by - Mo Udall)
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. (Quote by - Jack Herer)
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
I think were probably more unified than ever before because were in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government. (Quote by - Bill Scott)
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. (Quote by - Bhumibol Adulyadej)
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nations support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? (Quote by - Theodore Bikel)
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. (Quote by - J. D. Hayworth)
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
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. (Quote by - Michael Badnarik)
I no longer cared about survival - I merely loved. (Quote by - Loren Eiseley)
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. (Quote by - Margaret J. Wheatley)
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. (Quote by - Kay Bailey Hutchison)
Moderation is the secret of survival. (Quote by - Manly Hall)
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question. (Quote by - Neale Donald Walsch)
It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. (Quote by - Imelda Marcos)
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival. (Quote by - Bhumibol Adulyadej)
I have a hot memory, but I know Ive forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. (Quote by - Iggy Pop)
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. (Quote by - Carlos P. Romulo)
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. (Quote by - Larry Harvey)
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. (Quote by - Christian Lous Lange)
Survival is nothing more than recovery. (Quote by - Dianne Feinstein)
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. (Quote by - Hideki Tojo)
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
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. (Quote by - Nick Nolte)
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. (Quote by - Norbert Wiener)
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Theyre 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. (Quote by - Jeremy Rifkin)
That moment was very important because it was political. Thats 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. (Quote by - Mary McDonnell)
There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain (Quote by - Sarah Palin)
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. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
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. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. (Quote by - Rollo May)
