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
During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. - Hideki Tojo
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. - Aslan Maskhadov
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. - Margaret J. Wheatley
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. - David Duke
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. - George Lucas
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. - Tom G. Palmer
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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. - Iggy Pop
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. - Imelda Marcos
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community. - Larry Harvey
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. - Hideki Tojo
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. - Andrew Carnegie
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. - Nick Nolte
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. - Simon Wiesenthal
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. - Rutherford B. Hayes