Quotes About Self-preservation

He was an animal. Everyone knows never to corner one that's injured...even if it is just his pride.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

We distance ourselves for protection, Wear scarves when it's cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

You don't win battles you walk away from.

My heart is not available for hurt.

You have an inbuilt goodness. Why should you allow some poisonous elements to destroy that goodness? Protect your goodness by any means. Stay away from the toxic people.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

You gotta give yourself oxygen before you can give it to anyone else. I have to put my own mask on first.

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH (Name of chapter)

the truth about our government, any government for that matter, is that protecting its citizens is never its first priority. Its first priority is protecting itself.

The history of censorship in twentieth-century America is largely a story of self-regulation in the name of self-preservation—voluntary restraint enacted on the assumption that governmental restriction would be worse.

self-preservation has one virtue, which is that it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. With altruism, there's almost always a hidden motive. The benefactor wants to be lionized or, worse, have the person he's helping at his mercy. Otherwise why would people who give money to universities want buildings named after them?

God defend me from myself.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.

Don't let anyone infiltrate your happiness. Protect it as if it's all you have, because it literally is.

I couldn't worry about anyone else but myself and my health.

Link had to make the decision to save himself.

Putting yourself first means you will never be last.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.