Quotes about Survival

Nately's death, in fact, almost killed Yossarian too, for when he broke the news to Nately's whore in Rome she uttered a piercing heartbroken shriek and tried to stab him to death with a potato peeler.

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

In his great act of humility and washing, he broke with all the models of humanity that are visible in our own time and place: the rat race of productivity, the fear for survival, the frenzy of accumulation, and the deathly sense of self-sufficiency.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.

Only 9 percent of evangelicals tithe to their churches. Eight hundred new church plants survive each.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.