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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them… — Rachel Carson 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
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Seek guidance for outer action, but be even more concerned with the desires of the heart, that they be consistent with the… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what… — Josh Homme Copy Share Image
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy;… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonement finite and forgetting and whole—but time in… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Even so, the major feeling and thought that I'd like them to keep in mind is the aesthetic ability of such a… — Martine Epoque Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
