Quotes About Survival

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Every man for himself.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Hopeful men do not die so easily.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.