"With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation,……" — Thorstein Veblen

More Alert Quotes

This quote is filed under Alert Quotes, one of 316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. — Glenn Beck
• Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion… — Harold Brodkey
• This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,… — Margaret Chan
• When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,… — Kirstie Alley
• I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and… — Robert H. Schuller
• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men… — Louis D. Brandeis
• The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward… — Barry Lopez
• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and… — Thorstein Veblen
• In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do… — Walter Savage Landor
• Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain… — Rajneesh

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