Quotes About Survival

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

No man is lost while he yet lives.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Without game, men prey on each other.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

I need to put bread on the table man

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.