Own Preservation Quotes
- Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. — W. Somerset Maugham
- The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity. — Francois Fenelon
- For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self… — Steven Pressfield