Struggle For Existence Quotes

• I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Hair, Theory Of Evolution

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

  Harvey Keitel

  Struggle, Understanding, Rewards

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• I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

  Charles Darwin

  Opinion, Murder, Origin Of Species

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold

  Lucy Parsons

  Determination, Lying, Struggle

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• All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Struggle, Reality, Survival

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• In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Struggle, Dawn

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• That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Struggle, Competition, States

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.444, A&C Black

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• The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Meaningful, Struggle, Able

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.102, Souvenir Press

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• We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Science, Survival

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859) See Malthus 2

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• The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.260, VM eBooks

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• For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.

  Adolf Hitler

  Strong, Struggle, Numbers

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.152, eKitap Projesi

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• The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Struggle, Heart, Darkness

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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• Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Struggle, Rest Of Life

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

  Ken MacLeod

  Stars, Struggle, Life Is

  "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

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• Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.

  Frank Capra

  Spiritual, Prayer, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Struggle, Rely Upon, Survival

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• Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

  Idries Shah

  Spiritual, Struggle, Sleep

  Idries Shah (1964). “The Sufis”, Anchor Books

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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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• In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

  Oscar Wilde

  Struggle, Silly, Mind

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Men, Triumph

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Struggle, Race

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• The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must be the demolition of present-day Russia and must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron resolution to exterminate the enemy remorselessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of the contemporary Russian Bolshevik system are to be spared.

  Franz Halder

  Military, War, Struggle

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• Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Struggle, Science, Engineering

  "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" by S. Rajasekar, September 7, 2006.

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• Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.

  Al-Jahiz

  Struggle, Successful, Animal

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