Survival Quotes - Page 24

• Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

  Heinz Pagels

  Feelings, Reason, Capacity

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

  Bear Grylls

  Kids, Decision, Fearless

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• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Heart, Winning

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• Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

  Bear Grylls

  Weather, Priorities, Firsts

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• What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mistake, Struggle, Men

  Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.13, Verso

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• Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

  Ray Mears

  Beauty, Real, Knowledge

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• Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.

  Edgar Morin

  Understanding, Humanity, Progress

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• You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Talking, Wiping Out, Body

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• Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Ambition, Independence, Groups

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• [on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

  Trent Franks

  Running, Long, Marriage Equality

  "Rep. Trent Franks Calls Marriage Equality A 'Threat To The Nation’s Survival'" by Brian Tashman, www.rightwingwatch.org. October 28, 2011.

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• I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days

  Linda Blair

  Mother, Cancer, Reading

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• All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.

  Peter Singer

  Religious, Sex, Lying

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• It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

  Al Gore

  Issues, Moral, Should

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• People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.

  Tim Wise

  Children, Color, Long

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• An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Inspirational, Cancer, Doe

  Terry Tempest Williams (1991). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, Vintage

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• The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Inspirational, Life, Community

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• For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Inspirational, Life, Fighting

  Dr B.R. Ambedkar (2014). “Annihilation of Caste”, p.77, Ssoft Group, INDIA

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• A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliot’s designation of our return is ‘through the unknown remembered gate.'

  John Zerzan

  Oneness, Return, Literature

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• What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

  Daniel Quinn

  Race, Prison, Wealth

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• Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

  George Monbiot

  People, Choices, Matching

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• War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

  Aminatta Forna

  War, People, Trying

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• UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

  Clay Aiken

  Children, Causes, Committed

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• We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.

  Bernard Lown

  Children, Issues, Rights

  Nobel Price Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1985.

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• I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, Mean, Skills

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• In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm rather than trying to thaw yourself out later.

  Mors Kochanski

  Fire, Light, Weather

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