Survival Quotes

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception" "All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me" "I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it" "I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival." "Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale." "We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense" "In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity" "I don't believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape" "We control the world basically because we can cooperate better than any other animal" "There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic" "Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster and not many people can keep their balance on it " "In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness." "I ain't a killer but don't push me" "The plague spread like a wave that would have submerged the dikes, the dams, all the obstacles that men had planted on its path; and maybe at this point it is more important to survive than to conquer" "The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of survival, inquiry, and sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases." "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." "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." "We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult"