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“Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.”

Wells May Humanity Existence Moral Cost Survival Consequence Privilege Preserves Serving Warning Holocaust Frightening License

Book:Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

Source: Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

“If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?”

Ifs Seems Struggle Evolution Cost Survival Increase Prospects Struggle For Survival

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.”

People World Way Country Enough Dies Poor Leader Poverty Too Much Failing Cost Survival Trade Basics Ending Poverty Poor Countries

Author:Edward de Bono

“It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.”

People Humans Home Lasts Humanity Cost Survival Overcoming Desperate Being Human Gamble New Home

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

“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.”

“But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival for certain businesses or, more accurately, business models. Thus we must keep i mind the other values or objectives that might also be affected by this war. We must make sure this war doesn't cost more than it is worth. We must be sure it is winnable, or winnable at a price we're willing to pay.”

People Ifs Mind War Might Certain Values Pay Willing Cost Conflict Survival Models Objectives Affected Copyright Business Models Metaphoric

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.”

People Needs Humans Facts Helping Joy Desire Nature Cost Survival Heavy Acknowledge Paradox Ritual Being Human

Book:A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

Source: A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

“First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival.”

Firsts Persons Matter Three Levels Quality Cost Survival Organization Competition Obvious

Author:Jack Welch

“Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.”

Ifs Humans Kind Doe Might Culture Social Space Levels Growing Progress Risk Cost Survival Suicide Insight Acceptable Space Travel Social Progress Asteroids

Author:Gregory Benford