This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I will be the first to admit that the sanctity of life and the preservation of religious freedom are not even among… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic… — Anders Behring Breivik Copy Share Image
Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth. — James Altucher 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
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosemite. But heritage… — Mary E. Reed Copy Share Image
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a… — Robert Genn 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
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has… — Augustus Copy Share Image
It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European… — Lewis Thomas 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
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
