Quotes About Survival

Love was a lizard brain instinct. A survival mechanism bred into the species that was totally separate from reason. Women were extremely vulnerable during pregnancy, and children were helpless for many years. If humans didn't have a mechanism for cementing a pair bond, nothing would remain but selfishness and promiscuity. Certain animal species were wired in the same way. How

I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

The moral: the dimwitted and impulsive might not be able to hold a job or learn algebra, but they sure knew how to screw each other—and reproduce like crazy.

don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

But evolution never optimized. Once it found a solution good enough to ensure species survival, it was content.

If your ancestors heard the rustle of a friendly breeze far away in the tall grass, and ran away, mistaking the breeze for a lion, this cost them very little. But if they heard the rustle of a lion in the tall grass, and mistook it for a friendly breeze, this would cost them their lives. Seeing potential bad news behind every harmless breeze is a survival instinct.

Because we aren't wired for utopia. Evolution didn't drive us to the top of the food chain by allowing us to be content. Human evolution favors anxiety over happiness. Happiness dulls our sharpness. Anxiety, on the other hand, ensures we maximize our attention to possible threats to our survival.

thinned out. I will reduce your numbers from more than eight billion, to five or six million. Five or six million of you who will be modeled after the winning team in every way possible, representing their country, culture, philosophy, level of ruthlessness, and so on.

Ernest Hemingway had said, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

There's no evolutionary advantage to long life.

The great martial artist Bruce Lee had once commented, "If someone comes at you with a sword, run if you can. Kung Fu doesn't always work.

When a stampeding herd of cattle were coming your way, it didn't much matter what had caused the stampede. You only had to know that no argument would alter its course, no persuasion would save your life if you were standing in its path. Recinos

survival of the fittest"—which was first coined by the economist Herbert Spencer

There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony ...

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

biology throws up certain complex and often cruel challenges.

Human survival requires that nation-states give up the institution of war and replace it with a cooperatively-functioning global peace system - for the well-being and security of all people everywhere.

Did you know that there are places in the world where women can just drop the child in the field, and go on with the harvest? What does that suggest to you?" "Third world? Grinding poverty? Gross infant mortality rates?" Bradford guessed.

she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

Even today, the Communist party continues to demand that people attack the innocent. It requires people to pledge public support for policies with which they do not agree. Survival in China, then and now, depends on constantly betraying one's conscience.

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'