Acting Quote by Bertha von Suttner

“Self-preservation is a natural instinct while self-destruction goes against the grain of nature’s order. This spawns chaos, and chaos is freedom in its purest…

— Paul Allih

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

— Nick Nolte

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

— Zeena Schreck

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

— Anonymous

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

— Alexander Hamilton

“Self-seeking is self-destruction”

— James Allen

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness…

— Eric Hoffer

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion…

— Deepak Chopra

We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy,…

— Noam Chomsky