Self Preservation Quotes - Page 2

• Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

  Boris Sidis

  Self, Preservation, Aim

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.

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• Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Self, Mind

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

  George Santayana

  Self, Useless, Occupation

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Self, Instinct

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1993). “Nietzsche Selections”, Prentice Hall

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• If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Self, House

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• As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

  Anthony Green

  Mean, Self, Focus

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Self

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• Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

  Jim Rohn

  Self, Insecurity, Poverty

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• self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Self, Foundation, Virtue

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• Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

  Lord Acton

  Self, Political, Denial

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• Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

  David Levithan

  Self, Preservation, Ifs

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.73, Egmont UK

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• Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

  Nalini Singh

  Self, Preservation, Sense Of Self

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.24, Penguin

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• Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Self, Survival, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.7

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• Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fighting, Self, Soul

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are you right now?

  Rachel Vincent

  Self, Appreciate, Rescue

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Shadow Bound”, p.42, Harlequin

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• In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

  N.D. Wilson

  Self, World, Preservation

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• Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

  Herve Falciani

  Strong, Self, Regulation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

  Boris Sidis

  Self, Instinct, Preservation

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.

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• All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Gun, Men

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• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of ... the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another.... Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?

  Samuel Adams

  Religious, Taken, Men

  "The Rights of the Colonists". The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, history.hanover.edu. November 20, 1772.

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• Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

  Veronica Roth

  Motivation, Compassion, Self

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• To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

  Audre Lorde

  Motivation, Reality, Self

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• Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Self, Important, Preservation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.

  Derrick Jensen

  Self, Civilization, Ignorant

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.149, Seven Stories Press

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