Quotes About Survival

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?