“When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.” — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful. — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause… — C. JoyBell C 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
I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Copy Share Image
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
“The dead would be buried, and over time everything would be absorbed. All that remained would be a vague memory in their… — Donato Carrisi 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
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can care about new things and new people and new beginnings, and until you are dead in the ground, you are… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that one should not be angered at an injustice or speak out against whatever violates one’s security.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
A common excuse for self-preservation through disobedience is offense. There is a false sense of self-protection in harboring an offense. It keeps… — John Bevere 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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
