“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.” TryingHumansArtEnergyNaturalLossDealsEnvironmentSurvivalDisasterGet AwayCatastropheNatural Disaster Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
“... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.” IfsKindChildrenCareWantedPoorDealsMorningMastersSurvivalSlaverySlaveIgnorantGet UpHealth CareWelfareClothingsAmendmentsShelterBondage Author:Joycelyn Elders
“If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.” IfsMayEndsBodyNationsPresidentDealsSuccessfulMaterialsDutySurvivalCongressMysteriousCrucialPassagesConvoluted Author:Jon Stewart
“If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.” IfsFirstsFallDealsCarBuildingSurvivalConcernPerilHorns Book:Madwand Source: Madwand
“I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.” DealsSurvivalConcernFellowsJewIsraelZionist Author:George Soros
“Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.” IfsMayEndsHappensPainDealsSurvivalRewardsDetermineMissionsAccomplishedMissions In Life Author:Richard M. Nixon
“A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliot’s designation of our return is ‘through the unknown remembered gate.'” WorldFeelsStillsStatesLiteratureNaturalDealsReturnSurvivalOnenessRememberedGatesIndigenousNatural WorldUnifiedIndigenous PeopleOuter WorldsEliotDesignation Author:John Zerzan
“That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.” ThinkingWellsImportantDoneMomentsMotivationalPoliticalMotivationFeltDealsLeaderFiguresSurvivalTradeWorthyThat MomentTrade Offs Author:Mary McDonnell