Survival Quotes

Moderation is the secret of survival.
Manly Hall

Secret, Moderation

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.
Bill Frist

Success, Peace, Best

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
Angela Davis

Time, Learning, Country

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
Russel Honore

Food, Word, Alive

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.
Jerry Costello

Women, Men, Children

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
Lili Taylor

Art, Human, Beginning

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.
Katherine Dunn

Struggle, Forget, Human

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.
David Hackworth

War, American, Treat

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.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

Leadership, Country, Social

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.
Hideki Tojo

American, Peaceful, Period

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
Mo Yan

Country, Enough, Poor

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?'
Josiah Strong

Powerful, Doubt, Down

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Ty Cobb

Men, Struggle, Baseball

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
Daniel H. Pink

Talk, Motivation, Purpose

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!
George Lincoln Rockwell

Blessed, Together, Same

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
Timothy Garton Ash

Liberty, Key, Modern

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
Al Purdy

Either, Poems, Collected

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
Nursultan Nazarbayev

Time, Problems, Culture

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
M. H. Abrams

Long, Humanity, Place

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

Human, Small, Nor

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.
David Duke

Trying, Country, Israel

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.
Albert Claude

Life, Control, Her

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
Leonard Baskin

Money, Making, Anxiety

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
Dwight Yoakam

Character, Proud, Order

I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.
Cam Gigandet

Small, Difficult, Dead

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
James Forrestal

War, Victory, Attack

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
Andy Dick

Pain, Laugh, Sometimes

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
Joy Bryant

Life, Happiness, Good

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
James De La Vega

Big, Dream, Lose

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.
Sonia Rykiel

Woman, Question, Shows

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