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Quotes About Survival

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
~ John F. Kennedy
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
~ Lester B. Pearson
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
~ Al Yankovic
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
~ Duke of Wellington
War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left
~ Bertrand Russell
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
~ Sebastian Junger, War
Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.
~ Emilie Schindler
The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
~ Will Durant
They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.
~ Hernando Cortes
I am well versed in reading the pages of war.
~ Janusz Korczak
The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.
~ Faramir
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
~ William Faulkner
If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
~ Harry S. Truman
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
~ Vera Brittain
The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.
~ Ismail Serageldin
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.
~ Philip Sheridan
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
~ O. Henry
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
~ Barbara Tuchman
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.
~ William Henry Ashley
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
~ Sun Tzu
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
~ Hideki Tojo
Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.
~ Ray Hudson