Quotes About Survival

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

Man is no man, but a wolf

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

A man destined to hang can never drown

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.