Quotes About Survival

Imagine thousands and thousands of years ago, when the human race was born in Africa, if we'd not allowed them to get out of Africa then we wouldn't exist.

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.

We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.

Climate change threatens the future of life on this planet.

It is fair to say that the political duopoly we are forced to accept creates a set of problems that threaten the survival of the nation, problems that we need to fix with system-wide changes.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

People don't flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to. Why? Because they don't have a job, because they are being threatened by gangs, because they don't have basic things like water, education, health.

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.