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Survival Quotes


"Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival."


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


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


"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."


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


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


"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."


"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."


"Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean."


"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."


"Sometimes the very things that we're expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let's die so that we can live."


"Prey cannot bribe its way out of a predator's hand."


"Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning."


"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."


"Young Cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learn to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive...makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat..."


"I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics."


"Life is cold, but I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes."


"The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!"


"Sauve qui peut. To survivewe'd all turn thiefand rascal, or so says the fox,with her coat of an elegant scoundrel,her white knife of a smile,who knows just where she's going:to steal somethingthat doesn't belong to her -some chicken, or one more chance,or other life."


"They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be."


"You don't have to love the storm but you have to know its language in case you meet it!"


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


"I've been through hell in this life, yet risen up and survived.I felt pity after heard that boy's preaching about motivation."


"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."


"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."


"Death is easy, you just take the gun or the knife and you just start to suicede by your own or you tell to somebody who is relative to you or somebody who is a friend it doesn't matter and you give him the gun or you say to him what to do and he kills you. This is easy, we aren't born to give up, we aren't born to die let's make ways, let's make our choices, even if you are down in the misearble place and you have lost hope and everything. You mustn't give up continue, stand up say that you won't give up, make few breaths and exhalations, then go to this road and continue. That's your mission!"


"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."


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