Quotes about Survival

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

There was nothing wrong, he reminded himself, with healthy fear; only when it escalated into panic did it become a killer.

Mankind now faces its ultimate emergency. In such a moment of crisis, is it not right for us to call upon the instinct that has always ensured our survival in the past? A poet in an earlier, almost equally troubled age put it better than I can ever hope to do: WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazism, I would choose Communism. I hope not to be called upon to survive in the world under a Government of either of these dispensations. I cannot feel any enthusiasm for these rival creeds. I feel unbounded sorrow and sympathy for the victims.

The only object of liberty is life.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

The world gets comfort from their odds. Not Christians. Some count their chariots (percentages of survival) and some count their horses (side effects of treatment), but we trust in the name of the LORD our God

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.