I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.… — Chris Hedges 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
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact. — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — Malcolm X 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
For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation… — Chanakya 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
“When self-preservation is not applied with discernment, it becomes the Devil’s tool or we can choose to take a chance on people… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
You can only let someone throw so many stones at you before you pick them all up, put them together and build… — Chellise Work Copy Share Image
“...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then… — Lord Chesterfield 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
“Lessons learned today, I am my greatest champion. Nobody will respect me unless I stand up for myself. Sounds so simple, yet… — Virginia Toole 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
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
