Quotes About Survival

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

A hated government does not long survive.

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

The worst is over without a doubt.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.