Survival quotes

Discover profound quotes that encapsulate the essence of survival - the indomitable spirit, resilience, and strength in the face of adversity.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

- Simon Wiesenthal

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.

- Nick Nolte

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.

- Andrew Carnegie

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

- Hideki Tojo

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.

- Larry Harvey

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

- Imelda Marcos

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

- Iggy Pop

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

- Jane Wagner

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

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

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

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

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

- David Duke

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

- Margaret J. Wheatley

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

- Aslan Maskhadov

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

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

- Linda Vester

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

- Marilu Henner

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

- John McCarthy

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.

- Lily Tomlin

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

- Winston Churchill

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

- Luis Bunuel

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

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

- Al Purdy

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

- Robert Nozick

I've always believed in survival.

- Hugh Leonard

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

- Edward Everett Hale

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

- Todd Solondz