#survival

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.

#comes #except #freedom #generous #liberals

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. ↗

— Ken Burns

#being #defining #deprive #good #history

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest." ↗

— Bill Cosby

#brother #child #did #discovered #eggs

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#environment #exists #form #god #high

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever ↗

— Anne Frank

#strong

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it. ↗

— Linda Vester

#easy #get #hardened #journalist #just

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#beloved #caused #death #more #perish

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#behavior #believe #consciousness #death #implications

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #avenue #consider #destruction #existence

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#humanity #kind #might #only #our