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“There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, "What was it like when you were a kid?" I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.”

Thinking Knows Humans Children Kids Parent Know How Survival Longing Species

Author:David McCullough

“We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.”

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Author:Petra Kelly

“We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.”

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Author:Mario Cuomo

“Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.”

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Author:Allen Lacy

“Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.”

World Humans Perception Survival Threat Perception Of The World

Author:Kevin Bacon

“And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.”

Humans Technology Planets Survival Complexes Spears Roaming

Author:Kirkpatrick Sale

“Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.”

Love Humans May Community Psychology Society Childhood Depends Survival Threat Protection Our Society Nurture Infancy

Book:Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

Source: Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

“Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.”

World Humans Brain Survival Machines Method Patterns Recognition Signals Noisy Adept

Author:Michael Shermer

“The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.”

Humans Problem Desire Human Beings Animal Levels Survival Capacity Satisfaction Deeper Senses Unhappy Arise Assumption Materialism Quests Gratification Sensory Immediate Gratification

Author:Dalai Lama

“Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.”

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Author:Annalee Newitz

“Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.”

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Author:Chris Abani

“I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want to go and have some sex". It's fascinating, there's an entire realm of human activity that's important and literally vital to our survival and yet we've vilified it. That's one of the reasons that religious station is so fascinating to me.”

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Author:Brad Warner

“Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people. That's why we treat women as second-class citizens, that's why we are homophobic, and that's why we make religion a weapon to prove we're superior to other people.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.”

Ifs Humans Persons Might Motivation Human Beings Situation Trouble Evolution Survival Finals Primaries Analysis

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths. Both are vast, harsh, implacable, homogenous to the untrained eye, and beautiful. Bothallow the wind to roam on the surface. And both serve as wonderful vehicles for human survival stories.”

Humans Stories Eye Beautiful Wonderful Wind Ocean Survival Depth Metaphor Surface Desert Vehicle Harsh Desolation Counterparts

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that can exercise the human mind. The more you think of it, the more all other questions seem to sink into utter insignificance, for only if survival be true, can the Universe be rationalized at all.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Humans Soul Seems Universe Theory Exercise Survival Being True Human Mind Fallacy Insignificance

Author:Ernest MacBride

“We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it.”

Needs Humans Support Survival Our Future Undermining

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?”

People Thinking Way Humans Powerful Rich Survival Mass Greed Bars

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.”

Ifs Way Humans Human Beings Wonder Survival Killing Best Way Killing Someone

Author:Laura Huxley

“Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them.”

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Author:Jordan Peele

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”

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Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”

Humans Nature Survival Species Including Indifferent Human Species

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“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.”

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Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.”

People Believe Humans Values Survival Superiors Tribes Human Relationships

Author:E. O. Wilson

“To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.”

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Author:Leon Uris

“I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends [there]?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.”

“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Humans Science Nature Chance Race Planets Approach Survival Beats Human Race Submission Pessimistic Ingenious

Author:E. B. White

“There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.”

People Humans Book Human Beings Known Youth Survival Conspiracy After Death Demented

Book:Pale fire

Source: Pale fire

“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”

Humans Religious Business Compassion Buddhism Essentials Survival Luxury Stability Compassionate Kindness And Compassion Goodness And Kindness Human Kindness Human Compassion Mental Peace Mental Stability

Author:Dalai Lama

“But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace.”

Humans Mean Language Successful Regret Safe Survival Imperatives Groceries Avoidance

Author:Janet Frame

“I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.”

Thinking Knows Humans Strong Animal Survival Weak Our Society Helpless Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”

Humans Care Suffering Human Beings Survival Capacity Awe Fullness Oleanders

Author:Janet Fitch

“Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !”

Humans Survival Instinct Species Dependent Shelter

Author:Bruce H. Lipton

“But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.”

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Author:Stanley Milgram

“The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.”

Humans Has Beens Choices Term Community Human Beings Moral Particular Survival Consequence Species Valuable Traits Blindness Selective

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.”

Thinking Humans Soul Able Form Habit Survival Species Environmental Massive Quests Conservation Inability Human Soul Malady

Author:Lawrence Anthony

“When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.”

Humans Action Subjects Survival Bases Slavery Threat Slave Including Human Life Compelled Indication Scarce Scarcity Life And Happiness

Book:Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Source: Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

“For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.”

“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.”

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Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.”

“The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

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