Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. — Herve Falciani Copy Share Image
I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy. — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration. — G. D. H. Cole Copy Share Image
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community,… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle,… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse;… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution…The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax… — Frank Howard Clark Copy Share Image
I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And… — Katherine Howe Copy Share Image
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand? — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases. — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
