Survival Quotes

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Your probability of dying on Mars is much higher than earth. Really, the ad for going to Mars would be like Shackleton's ad for going to the Antarctic: "It's gonna be hard. There's a good chance of death, going in a little can through deep space. You might land successfully. Once you land successfully, you'll be working nonstop to build the base."

I think there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multi-planetary in order to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen.

The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.

One of the things that can keep you from going away is an openness to change. That's the point.

Our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they were contributing to a family's essential survival and happiness.

Wait a minute, boys. We're not going to be reconstructing the dollar. We're going to be grubbing for worms.

If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

Well, then, had I been at Martinique, I should also have been on the side of the English, because above all things it is necessary to save one's life. I am for the whites, because I am white; I have no other reason, yet that is reason good enough. How was it possible to grant liberty to the Africans, to men without any kind of civilization, who did not even know what a colony meant, or that there was such a place as France?

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

Without the body and the mind, as all men know, the Nation could not live.

Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat.