Quotes about Self-preservation

The Jews of Europe had been foolish to entrust their safety and security to anyone but themselves. What if they had been organized? What if they had been armed and trained and immobilized? No one could have sent them to concentration camps to perish by the hundreds of thousands.

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

You know, sometimes you can hurt yourself more by trying to keep yourself from being hurt!" Miriam called after her.

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations...

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Fear is a self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by pulling back. Anger is self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by striking out.

I believe that it is my responsibility to keep my personal life normal by not talking about it.