Quotes About Survival

If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the challenges of existence by a never-ending effort and inventiveness.

If some men attempt to survive by means of brute force or fraud, by looting, robbing, cheating or enslaving the men who produce, it still remains true that their survival is made possible only by their victims, only by the men who choose to think and to produce the goods which they, the looters, are seizing. Such looters are parasites incapable of survival, who exist by destroying those who are capable, those who are pursuing a course of action proper to man.

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are.

She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced with astonished indignation the ugly fact of feeling pain, and refused to let it matter. Suffering was a senseless accident, it was not part of life as she saw it.

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires...Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform.

It's a law of survival, isn't it?—to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtues, not of vices.

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.

I shall remind you thatrights are a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context, that are derived from man's nature as a rational being and represent a necessary condition of his particular mode of survival. I shall remind you also that the right to life is the source of all rights, including the right to property.

Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.

If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct.

The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.

todo el mundo roba, desde los niños a los viejos —lo cual puede significar simplemente, dado que todo pertenece al Estado, que se han cogido unas pocas frutas—. Trampa infernal, una sociedad que no deja más opción que morir, robar y engañar: esta deseducación, en particular entre los jóvenes, ha permitido que subsista hasta hoy un cinismo y un egoísmo que comprometen las posibilidades de desarrollo de Camboya.

She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, not the last time a genuinely powerful woman has been transmuted into a shamelessly seductive one.

John Willard's widow, who had cowered under the stairs after his beatings, married a Towne in 1694.

They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a social situation, and what they could rightfully expect from one. In part these seemed to be survival tactics for living in an uncertain time.

He has to survive this, if only to avoid having his digital corpse kicked to pieces by those grunting, knuckle-dragging troglodytes otherwise known as commenters.

From strawberries under torture one may extract all sorts of things.

Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.

Put simply, unlike terrestrial organisms it did not adapt to its surroundings over the course of hundreds of millions of years, so as only then to produce a rational species, but it had gained control over its environment from the start.

Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ''Schindler's List'' is about 600 who don't. Anything else?

Denize bak. Bir sürü canl?yla dolu, irili ufakl? canl?lardan ibaret. Hiçbir ÅŸey yapm?yorlar, birbirlerini yemek d???nda hiçbir ÅŸey yapm?yorlar. Yiyor ve ürüyorlar. Birbirlerini yiyor ve kendileri üzüyorlar. Neyseler o olduklar? için mi? Yoksa baÅŸka bir ÅŸeye dönüÅŸtükleri için mi?

Ogni notte è meravigliosa quando torni vivo da un campo di battaglia, o esci da un ospedale, o lasci una prigione, bella è la gioia degli scampati, dei guariti, dei salvi, anche se sarà breve.