Quotes About Survival

Well, I'm glad you didn't drown." His eyes warm up with his face. I smile back at him. "Yeah, that would've sucked." "Definitely.

Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.

Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. This world is a harsh place, this world.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

Without the extension and/or transcendence of self-love, survival is not the kind of survival that sets humans apart from the beasts (and--never forget it--the angels).

Utopia' used to denote a coveted, dreamt-of distant goal to which progress should, could and would eventually bring the seekers after a world better serving human needs. In contemporary dreams, however, the image of 'progress' seems to have moved from the discourse of shared improvement to that of individual survival. Progress is no longer thought about in the context of an urge to rush ahead, but in connection with a desperate effort to stay in the race.

Quien busque la supervivencia asesinando la humanidad de otro ser humano sólo consigue sobrevivir a la muerte de su propia humanidad.

uno no es más duro e inescrupuloso que todos los demás, lo destruirán, con o sin remordimientos. Hemos regresado a la sombría verdad del mundo darwiniano: los que sobreviven son invariablemente los más aptos. O, más bien, la supervivencia es la prueba última de que uno está en buena forma.

El precepto de amar al prójimo desafía a los instintos determinados por la naturaleza; pero también desafía el sentido de la supervivencia establecido por la naturaleza, y el del amor a uno mismo, que lo resguarda.

En la sociedad, nada puede declararse exento de la norma universal de la "desechabilidad" y nada puede permitirse perdurar más de lo debido.

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement.

spluttering and gasping, coughing and retching, trying to clear the painfully burning fluid from his lungs. And suddenly, the dread that lurks in every Australian's mind brought panic. Sharks! But there were no sharks, he knew that. The protein-rich predators had been fished out all along the east coast, were virtually extinct. All