#survival

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#erupt #goes #nations #result #saying

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#against #become #better #considerably #human

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#because #choices #eternal #largely #life

No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days. -- Corporal Cranther in GLORY MAIN ↗

— Henry V. O'Neil

#science-fiction #scout #special-ops #survival #food

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#asking #entails #forever #i #i am

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival. ↗

— Mo Yan

#army #boy #constant #country #country boy

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#behavior #central #character #guilt #massive

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#been #believe #belong #great #human

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience. ↗

— Molly Peacock

#artistic-inspiration #creativity #healing #inspiration #survival

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. ↗

— Andrew Young

#change #continuous #essential #inevitable #need