“Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.” IndividualStrongGrowsEnvironmentTypeSurvivalWeakFatsStrifeStrainLuxurious Book:The Passing of the Great Race Source: The Passing of the Great Race
“The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.” ThinkingMindHas BeensBodyWould BeTogetherConsciousnessAtheismSurvivalArgumentWeakBasesDestroyedImmortalityPersistInterconnection Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood.” DreamDiesFightingStrongBloodSurvivalWeakFoolishAgonyTreatiesGrimIdealisticPeace Treaties Author:Dan Wells
“The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.” WayFormStrongSurvivalGunWeakMachinesDiedCriminalsEmpiresChicagoBulletsHailSurvival Of The FittestMachine Guns Author:Walter Winchell
“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.” ThinkingKnowsHumansStrongAnimalSurvivalWeakOur SocietyHelplessSurvival Of The Fittest Author:Natsuki Takaya
“I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.” IfsWayChildrenDifferentUseHandsWould BeWantedGirlFightingEasyAcceptingMinesWeaponsSurvivalIllusionWeakDenialLiarsPropsMy GirlSheila Author:Agatha Christie
“This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.” LawStrongFitSurvivalWeakThriveBeing StrongYukon Author:Robert W. Service
“Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.” NeedsMindReasonScienceStrongGrowsLosesPerfectEvolutionSurvivalWeakMajoritySpeciesAcquireAgain And Again Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.” HumansPersonsReasonAmericaConditionsGreatnessSurvivalDignityWeakTestsUltimateAbortionUnbornDefenseless Author:Pope John Paul II
“The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.” DiesStrongStrengthIndustrySurvivalWeakBloodshed Author:Ratan Tata
“Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.” WayPersonsSoulSurvivalWeakForgivingPurifying Author:Quentin Crisp