Quotes on Survival

I'm absolutely positive about human survival. We will continue to develop our civilisation and expand not just on Earth, but also across the solar system, the galaxy, even the entire universe.

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

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.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

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