Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes.… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must… — Franz Halder 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
In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“It has been pointed out by Boltzmann that the fundamental object of contention in the life-struggle, in the evolution of the organic… — Nick Gogerty Copy Share Image
“In its enervating plains, far removed from the invigorating sea-breeze and the bracing cold of the mountain ranges, the keen eye, undaunted… — R.W. Frazer Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous 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
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop… — Al-Jahiz 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
“It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“As Darwin pointed out in The Origin of Species (opening pages of chapter three), the 'struggle for existence' can often be described… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle… — C. S. Lewis 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
“It's not that somehow we may discover something in how we view ourselves or our environment that we'll find suitably fulfilling, that… — Janette Oke Copy Share Image
“Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“At certain epochs, man has felt conscious of something about himself - body and spirit - which was outside the day-to-day struggle… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
“The feeling of solidarity is the leading characteristic of all animals living in society. The eagle devours the sparrow, the wolf devours… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image