Self preservation Quotes · Page 4

A bureaucracy is like a living creature, with instincts of self-preservation and an urge to control all things for its own protection.

— Gordon R Dickson

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

— Jose Marti

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

— Rosamond Lehmann

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

— Joseph Brodsky

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

— Joseph Campbell

“That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.”

— Anonymous

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

— Herve Falciani

Stop the pain.” – Tory “You know I can’t.” – Acheron “Fine. But next time you’re the one who’s doing labor duty.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Forgiveness is never condoning the terrible act; it is severing hatred's tumour bloodline for self-preservation. Only by refusing this amputation does the…

— Stewart Stafford

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

— George Santayana

“The question asked by MKUltra experimenters was: “Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our…

— Orit Badouk Epstein

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it…

— Larry Crabb

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the…

— Winston Churchill

“People have a tendency of filtering their memories – exaggerate the positives and downplay their weaknesses and faults. Self-preservation will be another…

— Alexis Lawrence

“He hated his vanity, but it was a characteristic and nearly altogether unavoidable trait of the attractive. Perhaps it was self-preservation—simply his…

— Molly Collier

“…I saw that she, that we, had been wrong my entire life. Self-preservation is not the primary instinct. It never was. […]…

— Stephen Tobolowsky

I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be…

— Anonymous

“Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: And whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.’ [Matthew 16:25.]…He…

— David O. McKay

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.…

— Chris Hedges

Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze,…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“When we set boundaries, we express self-preservation and acknowledge mutual respect and autonomy. Boundaries can help us navigate balance, provide stable grounds…

— Erik Pevernagie

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

— Agatha Christie

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one…

— Thomas Jefferson

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

— Audre Lorde

“Self-preservation is a biological imperative even in the lowest of life forms, but annoyance is a trait exclusive to the most deviant.”

— Whiskey Britches

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

— Andrew Marvell

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

— Anthony Green

“I think I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Perhaps this is what Veronica called cowardice and I called being peaceable.”

— Julian Barnes

Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.

— Seth Moulton

“It can all end in a moment. Take for yourself now what tomorrow might not give you.”

— Guillermo del Toro

“Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.”

— Jayne Lockwood

“Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness?”

— T.F. Hodge

Life is too short to hold grudges true but cutting people off for self preservation isn't a grudge, its applying wisdom.

— Anonymous

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

— Chris Fussell

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than…

— Jodi Picoult

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

— Abbi Glines