Home / Topics / Survival Quotes

Survival Quotes

Browse 3207 quotes about Survival.

Survival Quotes

“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.”

Believe May Earth Mankind Particular Depends Survival Lasting Preservation Inheritance Researchers Future Of Mankind

Author:Kenichi Fukui

“They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.”

Way Mind Long Body Names Existence Survival Machines Ultimate Genes Preservation Long Way Mind And Body Rationale Selfish Gene

Book:The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.”

Knows Giving Self Hard Reason Reality Action Faces Life Is Motivation Enemy Our Lives Despair Survival Tools Altruism Preservation Powerless Self Preservation Hard Questions

Author:Audre Lorde

“The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.”

Certain Natural Existence Struggle Survival Preservation Selection Natural Selection Struggle For Existence

Book:The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition

Source: The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition

“I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.”

Mind Self Space Survival Sacred Technique Preservation Self Preservation Sacred Space

Author:Jon Gordon

“Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.”

Doe Enough Past Spirit Culture Survival Essence Notes Evolve Preservation Indigenous

Author:Wade Davis

“This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.”

Would Be Science Left Natural Evolution Elements Survival Destruction Affected Preservation Selection Variation Natural Selection Survival Of The Fittest

Book:On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.”

Love Self Pain Individual Force Survival Instinct Hunger Preservation Self Preservation Survival Instinct Love Pain

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.”

“This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.”

Life Term Natural Race Struggle Survival Preservation Selection Natural Selection Life Struggle Survival Of The Fittest Struggle For Survival

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.”

Firsts Self Principles Survival Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

“I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.”

Self Survival Instinct Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending