Preservation Quotes

345 Preservation quotes by 279 unique authors

I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and the… — Anders Behring Breivik
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation. — Simon Bolivar
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic… — Allen Weinstein
The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense… — Carl von Clausewitz
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms. — Maxine Hong Kingston
Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined… — Joseph Warren
There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely, no reason why we shouldn't… — Nile Kinnick
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death… — Robert Hewison
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for… — Clark Kerr
By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values are… — Howard Zahniser
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal. — Robert Genn
My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future… — Sue Kelly
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive… — Walter Lang
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its… — Walter Lang
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment. — Judith Lewis Herman
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for… — Algernon Sidney
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and… — Herman E. Daly
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. — Viktor E. Frankl
Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history.… — Carolyn Merchant
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety… — Walpola Rahula
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society. — Manning Marable
Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. — Gerald Durrell
A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of… — Clarence Stein

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