Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests. — Adam Werbach Copy Share Image
“The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. — Charles Darwin 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
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux… — Woodrow Wilson 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
People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone.… — Richard Moe Copy Share Image
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the… — Thomas Dillon Copy Share Image
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next… — William Powers Copy Share Image
We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“When you find real love — protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
