Survival Quotes

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming

Change, Necessary, Mandatory

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.
Steven Spielberg

Important, Proud, Growing

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.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Today, Human, Become

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Energy, Male

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
Stanislav Grof

Death, Karma, After

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.
Demetri Martin

Romantic, Fun, Choice

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos

Fight, Self, Goes

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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Future, Destiny, Off

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts

Strong, Football, Done

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Edward Everett Hale

Name, Known, Torture

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam Chomsky

War, Two, Problems

Success is survival.
Leonard Cohen

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.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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.
Stanislav Grof

Time, Hope, Humanity

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace, Age, Nuclear

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature, Human, Species

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.
George Lucas

End, Important, Able

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Humanity, Animal, Begins

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.
Audre Lorde

Work, Down, Different

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry

Hope, Earth, Cherish

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
Camille Paglia

Nature, Struggle, Fire

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Stephen Jay Gould

Mirror, Either, Domination

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder

Love, Living, Dead

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?
Theodore Bikel

Put, Pride, Matter

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner

Yourself, Important, May

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Becoming, Depends, Systems

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
Benjamin Carson

God, Wrong, Sense

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley

Life, Good, Bad

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Work, Best, Country

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