Identity Quote by David Levithan

“When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.”

— Meljean Brook

“Perfect preservation isn't life, it’s death.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

— Nalini Singh

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…

— Woodrow Wilson

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

— Jose Marti

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into…

— Joe Abercrombie

It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the…

— James Madison

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular…

— William Blackstone

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

— Albert Einstein

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right…

— Samuel Adams