(864 quotes found)
“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.”
Pope John Paul II
“If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.”
William James
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value”
Stephen Hawking
“Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“The survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."”
Herbert Spencer
“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.”
Colin Powell
“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
W. Edwards Deming
“Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive”
Bob Marley
“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.”
Charles Darwin
