“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.” PeopleMadeGovernmentRunningAsksMistakeCompanyFailingIndustryTerribleSurvivalBiggerMaking MistakesReverseDarwinism Author:Peter Schiff
“A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.” IfsBelieveHas BeensMadeFallAsksWalksEssentialsSurvivalAriseGuruCrutches Author:U.G. Krishnamurti
“In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.” AgeAsksAnswersQualityDependsSurvivalSeriesSurvivorCorrectness Author:Margaret Mead
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.” FirstsCountryAsksCan DoPayLibertySupportPlanetsBearsSurvivalFellowsLifetimeBurdenFinishedAdministrationHardshipFoe Author:John F. Kennedy
“If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"” IfsMenMightLife IsValuesAsksDevelopmentSurvivalHighestTraditionDignityWesternSupremeThings In Life Author:Erich Fromm
“You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.” PeopleLifeHappinessAsksSurvivalKnives Author:Nick Hornby
“Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?” ThinkingMindAsksDangerSurvivalTerrorAidsPoisonLimbsCautious Author:David Gemmell
“Never admit defeat and ask for a quick death! Die first, then admit defeat! If you are defeated but didn't die, it just means you were lucky! At those times, think only about survival! Survive and think only about killing the one who failed to kill you!” IfsThinkingFirstsMeanDiesAsksLuckySurvivalKillingDefeatDefeatedBleachQuick Death Author:Tite Kubo
“In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.” PeopleWantPersonsDifferentDiesAsksSecretAchievementSurvivalMajorityRoundsLongevityDesirableBellyElderlyWrinklesEnviedScrapingDistrict 12 Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.” MenWorldMeanMadePurposeEvilAsksLosesMoralVirtueProduceBecomingSurvivalProductionsDestroyingImmoralPietyLootingFodder Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.” FirstsDoeHumanityAsksWinningPleasureAmbitionSurvivalBrilliantManageBehalfWinning Is Everything Book:Ender's Game Source: Ender's Game
“You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-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.” GivingHumansMayLongI CanWarHardMightAsksChangeDarkAnswersAirSeaLandCrimePolicyVictoryCostGiving UpSurvivalAimTerrorTyrannySpiteNot Giving UpOne WordMonstrousCataloguesGreat VictoryGreatest VictoryCost Of WarWar VictoryFinest Hour Author:Winston Churchill
“For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.” YearsMayStillsSelfAsksProcessEffortClassEnvironmentTeachingStudentsShapesEssentialsComfortableSurvivalPossessionEducationalBoringPsychologicalSelfishnessArticlesAcademicSuperiorityGrindSense Of SelfElbowsRhetoricalDaily Grind Author:Robin Winks
“Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.” WayYearsStatesFactsAsksBehindsStruggleDemandSurvivalYears AgoArmyPopulationIsraelWideNeighborMilesSecureRangePresidentialBordersHeroicFoundingHostileArtilleryStruggle For Survival Author:Ronald Reagan
“The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.” NeedsLongReasonEarthHumanityAsksTermCommunitySpaceAnswersRiskPossibilityReturnWalkingMoonProtectBenefitsSurvivalProfitLong TermGuaranteesCompellingStar GazingUnequivocalCompelling Reason Author:William E. Burrows