If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.
I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.
For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.
The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
