Quotes about Survival

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.

Those who fled will fight another time.

Our species is in trouble because we fight too much. We fight ourselves, each other, our planet, and God. Our fear-ridden ways are threatening our survival. A thoroughly loving person is like an evolutionary mutation, manifesting a being that puts love first and thus creates the context in which miracles occur.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

There was nothing wrong, he reminded himself, with healthy fear; only when it escalated into panic did it become a killer.

Mankind now faces its ultimate emergency. In such a moment of crisis, is it not right for us to call upon the instinct that has always ensured our survival in the past? A poet in an earlier, almost equally troubled age put it better than I can ever hope to do: WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazism, I would choose Communism. I hope not to be called upon to survive in the world under a Government of either of these dispensations. I cannot feel any enthusiasm for these rival creeds. I feel unbounded sorrow and sympathy for the victims.

The only object of liberty is life.

To live a life half dead, a living death.