Quotes About Survival

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

When security comes, every man for himself

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

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.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

My men think you are dead now, and won't waste balls on you," Jack said. "In fact I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can make your way back to Paris and tell them the following: that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say, for she knows who she is; and that it was done by 'Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe, L'Emmerdeur, the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver!

boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something

the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being a deterrent, serves as an unforgeable guarantee of freshness.

We could end up in prison married to the guy with the most cigarettes.

In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.

No one thought about the big picture for a few thousand years. We were all scrambling to survive.