Quotes About Self-preservation

No one can doubt that this world will one day be the scene of dreadful struggles for existence on the part of mankind. In the end, only the instinct of self-preservation will triumph. This so-called humanitarianism-which connotes only a mixture of stupidity, cowardice, and self-conceit-will melt away like snow under a March sun. Man has become great through perpetual struggle. In perpetual peace, he must decline.

In this world everything that is not of sound racial stock is like chaff. Every historical event in the world is nothing more nor less than a manifestation of the instinct of racial self-preservation, whether for weal or woe.

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

At some point you have to start letting people save their own life.

Ce lucru mai obisnuit decat minciuna, fie ca e vorba sa ascunzi de pilda slabiciunile zilnice ale unei sanatati despre care vrei sa se creada ca e robusta, sa ascunzi un viciu, sau sa te indrepti fara sa jignesti pe nimeni, spre locul pe care il preferi? E instrumentul de conservare cel ami necesar si cel mai intrebuintat.

I do not for a moment suggest that Japan should be unmindful of acquiring modern weapons of self-protection. But this should never be allowed to go beyond her instinct of self-preservation. She must know that the real power is not in the weapons themselves, but in the man who wields those weapons

I knew then, she said, that he was a liar, that for all his reportage and his honesty he was determined to keep himself untouched, to take without giving, to hoard himself like a greedy child.

Stay away from me so I don't feel anything for you anymore.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

I don't want people to know how I am feeling because it makes you more vulnerable.

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

My health is more important than arguing and bickering with people.

I think anytime that you can eliminate the big hit, it's obviously not only going to be good for your team, but it's going to be good for yourself.

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?