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“Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.”

Goal Forever Survival Including Prosperity Subordinates Great Power Vigilant

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.”

“Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.”

Way Life Has Beens Made Decision Survival Including Identification

Author:Rachel Dolezal

“For interests that are vital to the U.S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U.S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary.”

Ifs Should Use Force Interest Military Essentials Survival Prepared Including Be Prepared Wellbeing Military Force

Author:Graham T. Allison

“Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when their leaves or stems are ripped - and there is scientific evidence that while plants do not have brains and nervous systems like animals, they nevertheless actively work to ensure their survival - they want to live, thrive, reproduce, evolve.”

Want Feels Feelings Life Is Animal Brain Survival Research Evidence Sacred Plant Including Nervous Evolve Thrive Nevertheless Stem Ripped Nervous System Scientific Evidence

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.”

Has Beens Problem Spiritual Practice Struggle Issues Teaching Particular Survival Including Related No Problem Monk Involvement Joining Nun Tibetan Spiritual Practice Tibet

Author:Dalai Lama

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

Humans Nature Survival Species Including Indifferent Human Species

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“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

“There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable system that doesn't stress the ecosphere. Alternately, continued violence feeds population surges and hoarding the products of exploitative extraction, which endanger the survival of our species. In short, if we want a future with humans on Earth, we've got to stop war.”

Ifs Want Needs Humans War Enough Earth Violence Products Survival Resources Stress Species Including Population Exploitation Distribution Adequate Hoarding Extraction Stop War

Author:Vern Huffman

“Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.”

Men Reason Light Values Sound Animal Levels Figures Movement Survival Species Including Separation Caregiving

Book:A Secure Base

Source: A Secure Base