Quotes About Survival

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

We cannot expect a miserable, oppressed populace to exercise much care for anything outside its immediate survival and security. While the poor are kept in a state of survival anxiety through sheer deprivation, the rich suffer poverty of another kind: lack of community, connection, meaning, and intimacy, which can cause severe psychological stress even in conditions of material plenty.

Evidence and logic are tools we use to justify and flesh out our beliefs, but we are deceiving ourselves to think that they are the source of our beliefs. I will return to this idea, because it is crucial to understanding the process of belief change as well; and clearly, for our world to have a chance of surviving, a lot of beliefs are going to have to change.

Here I got rid of one of the most troublesome parts of my load — trading my venerable and battered Winchester rifle for a splendid new Colt's six-shooter with all its trappings — a perfect weapon which has since seen me through many a "close call." The exchange was a most welcome relief, and as for effectiveness, I soon got so handy with the new arm that there was no need for the rifle.

Here also I killed my first centipede — a hideous fellow, six inches long, a quarter of an inch across the back, and with about a hundred bow-legs, each tipped with a black fang. Let one walk across your hand undisturbed, and he leaves a highly inflamed red track. Hit him during that march, and he will sink those hundred fangs into your flesh, and it will rot away and drop from the bones. Rattlesnakes and huge, hairy "bush-spiders" are also common enough;

Los únicos métodos constructivos que nos permiten sobrevivir las tormentas del siglo veinte consisten en escuchar y obedecer a Dios. Los requisitos para vivir existencias perdurables consisten en escuchar su voz e integrarla a nuestro sistema de valores, a nuestros patrones de comportamiento, a nuestros pensamientos y a nuestras conversaciones.

Life for the overwhelming majority of people who haven't been blessed to live in a free society has been, as Hobbes put it, "poor, nasty, brutish, and short."8

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Alert today, alive tomorrow.

Scar — fossil in flesh, a hard-earned relic from your life

Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you are stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.

than twenty-eight thousand buildings destroyed. Many of those buildings were homes. Whole communities had been decimated.

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.

Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia - something I have never heard of - if my hand had not got hold of a glass ashtray and, entirely apart from my personal decision, flung it.

realized that when everything is stripped away from you and you have nothing, you find out what you really are down deep inside. What I was starting to see was not pretty.

Na catinga ele às vezes cantava de galo, mas na rua encolhia-se.

Quando avisto essa cambada, encolho-me, colo-me às paredes como um rato assustado. Como um rato, exatamente.

She turned me into a newt. ... But I got better...

Life is dangerous, she thought. No one survives it.

Heacox had disobeyed the first two laws of safety and survival: Do not touch unless you have to, and then do not touch until you've checked. And maybe here in the Temple of the Dead there was one more law, even more important: Do not touch until you understand it.

So long as Man endures, so too does Chaos.