Quotes about Survival

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.

Nately's death, in fact, almost killed Yossarian too, for when he broke the news to Nately's whore in Rome she uttered a piercing heartbroken shriek and tried to stab him to death with a potato peeler.

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

In his great act of humility and washing, he broke with all the models of humanity that are visible in our own time and place: the rat race of productivity, the fear for survival, the frenzy of accumulation, and the deathly sense of self-sufficiency.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.

Only 9 percent of evangelicals tithe to their churches. Eight hundred new church plants survive each.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.