Quotes about Survival

For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

Violence has followed our species every step of the way in its long journey through time.

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

The butterfly needs the hardship to make it strong enough to fly. The struggle pumps fluid to its wings and gives it the strength to survive. If I were to help it by cutting away the chrysalis, it would die. So all we can do is stand back and observe its own efforts to free itself.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

We were shoved against the back wall. Thirty or forty people were all that could fit in. And still the soldiers drove women over the side, cursing, jabbing with their guns. Shrieks rose from the center of the car but still the press increased. It was only when eighty women were packed inside that the door thumped shut and we heard iron bolts driven into place.