Quotes about Survival
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature abhors annihilation.
- Cicero
Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.
- Roseanne Barr
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
- Abbie Hoffman
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.
- Ayn Rand
My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.
- Ricky Gervais
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
- Ayn Rand
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
- Will Rogers
And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man lives for science as well as bread.
- William James
One rabbi who survived the camp summed it up well when he said that at Auschwitz it was as though there existed a world in which all the Ten Commandments were reversed. Mankind had never seen such a hell.
- William Lane Craig