#viva

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#am #damn #democracy #freedom #give

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#condition #ethnic #group #independence #necessary

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, “Not today. ↗

— Molly Ringle

#life #philosophy-of-life #survival #death

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics. ↗

— Vic Morrow

#critics #done #felt #finished #good

I survived, but it's not a happy ending. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#life #survival #life

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? ↗

— Solomon Short

#another #conservation #energy #fittest #hero

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. ↗

— George Reisman

#clearest #competition #economic #economics #evidence

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#survival #humor

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#day #eight #four #growth #hugs

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#cold #cold war #end #much #nation