Self Preservation Quotes

91 Self Preservation quotes by 83 unique authors

That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard… — Unknown Author
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving… — Jen Hatmaker
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows… — Peter Sloterdijk
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and… — Max Stirner
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty… — Joe Abercrombie
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature. — Alexander Hamilton
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. — Julian Barnes
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and… — Louis Sullivan
Self-preservation is an important thing to me. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable… — Woodrow Wilson
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause,… — Arthur Koestler
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty. — Jim Rohn
Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation. — Ani DiFranco
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly… — John Thune
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on… — Ann Coulter
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. — Diogenes
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. — Evelyn Waugh
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history,… — Derrick Jensen
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The… — Thomas Jefferson
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 to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… — Angela Carter

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