The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous 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 general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest… — 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty Copy Share Image
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“ Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars? — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life...… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“Equality in mutual relations with the solidarity arising from it, this is the most powerful weapon of the animal world in the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nature is only terrible or squalid to those who do not understand her, and when misunderstanding has upset her balance. She is… — LORD NORTHBOURNE Copy Share Image
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
“What would be the natural thing? A man goes to college. He works as he wants to work, he plays as he… — Owen Johnson Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust… — Jack London Copy Share Image
For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
