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Survival Quotes
Most Famous Survival Quotes of All Time!
Survival takes on different meanings throughout these quotes, an underdog rising against the odds, and a firsthand account of local people enduring a violent, unforgettable scene. Read more on Life and resilience.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
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Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
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Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
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We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
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Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
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It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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I've come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it's not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.
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Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Other quotes widen survival to a global scale, calling for cherishing the earth's renewal and warning about the danger nuclear weapons pose to humanity's future. See Best and Able quotes for more.