Quotes About Survival

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.