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Quotes About Survival

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
~ Tom G. Palmer
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.
~ Jacque Fresco
As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.
~ Ariel Sharon
Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.
~ Vanna Bonta
The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.
~ Will Hurd
There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.
~ Alanis Morissette
Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.
~ Debra Granik
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
~ Ken Burns
My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.
~ Timothy Olyphant
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
~ Andy Dick
Love is the substance of human survival.
~ Josh Tillman
The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.
~ Hayley Atwell
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
~ Lena Headey
My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.
~ Tyson Fury
The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.
~ Walter F. Mondale
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
~ Bruce Lipton
Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
~ Peter Diamandis
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
~ Russel Honore
In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Survival is nothing more than recovery.
~ Dianne Feinstein
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
~ Tony Blair
I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.
~ Wil Wheaton