Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
“Neighborliness is more than a slogan here; it is, as it has always been, an essential element of self-preservation in a challenging… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes… — Jacques Sandulescu Copy Share Image
People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield.” — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. — Evelyn Waugh 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
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“This—he gestured impatiently at himself—is just a fucking shell. You’re what drives me, Eva. Can you understand that? You’re my heart and… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
“Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.” He turned… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.'… — John Thune Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation… — Ted Cruz 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
I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
“What I can do is the only limit of what I may do. Because we are gregarious we live in society, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
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