Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-6] of 6 Survival quotesSurvival QuotesSurvival In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.~ Noam Chomsky It's difficult to view the world outside our human context. Staying alive and paying the bills both require our attention squarely fixed on our own business. Our sprawling cities and suburbs are wonderful and frightening tributes to creative self-absorption. In them, we spend our microscheduled days bustling between work and the endless details of our private lives, turning in our moments of rest to the buzzing distractions of television and computers - all accelerating toward some ultimate, unseen fulfillment of convenience and hyperreality. Little encourages us to pause and look around, much less question the end goal of all our busyness. Anything slower than the quick cuts of TV commercials is overwhelmed by our impatience and short attention. Unfortunately, we might be missing something important - to our happiness and to our survival.~ Jason Gardner Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.~ John F. Kennedy When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are.~ Ayn Rand 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 The struggle for freedom ... is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities -- sometimes of a minority of but one man -- against the majority.~ Ludwig von Mises Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print