Survival Quotes - Page 35

• The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Strength, Army, Democracy

  Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.1, Penguin

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• The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

  Lewis E. Platt

  Business, Real, Successful

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• Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

  George Monbiot

  Chance, Resources, Consuming

  "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.

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• There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power

  Dave Hampton

  Jobs, Energy, Safe

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• The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Years, Environmental

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• 'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Opportunity, Challenges

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• There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.

  Sharan Burrow

  Jobs, Zero, Fighting

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• I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Motivation, Struggle

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• The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Judging, Would Be, Taste

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2013). “Dark Benediction”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.

  David Richo

  Pain, Optimism, Elimination

  David Richo (1999). “Shadow Dance”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

  Leonard Cohen

  Fall, Stories, Heard

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

  Elie Tahari

  Creativity, Instinct, Force

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• Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

  Ann Zwinger

  Flower, Acceptance, Endurance

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• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

  Dominique de Menil

  Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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• Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Spiritual, Fun, Reality

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• Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.

  Roger Ebert

  Numbers, Community, Warning

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• This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Emotional, People

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• The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Goal, Levels, Addresses

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• The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

  Deepak Chopra

  Next, Steps, Evolution

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• Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Mind, Tools

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.773, Hamilton Books

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• The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.

  Rod Coronado

  Pyramids, Guarantees, Earth

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• A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Mean, Culture

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• The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

  Audre Lorde

  Powerful, Order, Live Love

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.74, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.21, Penguin

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• The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

  Alvin Toffler

  Yesterday, Firsts, Dangerous

  Alvin Toffler (1985). “Adaptive Corporation”, Bantam

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