Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. — Herve Falciani Copy Share Image
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand? — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
“There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . You shouldn't feel like you… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I resisted the urge to point out that since Alona was already technically dead, it wouldn’t really be homicide. I do have… — Stacey Kade Copy Share Image
“In times of turbulence in your life always know when it's time to throw up the gates and lock your heart and… — Charles E Hudson 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
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
“As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, sour auras! The good thing is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“With the courage of the soul, we don’t focus only on self-preservation, security, or safety; in fact, such courage compels us to… — Alberto Villoldo 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
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against… — Orit Badouk Epstein Copy Share Image
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.'… — John Thune Copy Share Image
“This—he gestured impatiently at himself—is just a fucking shell. You’re what drives me, Eva. Can you understand that? You’re my heart and… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should… — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.” He turned… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that… — Joe Hill 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
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
“Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self… — Paul Isaacs Copy Share Image
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
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