Yossi Ghinsberg Quotes

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

Politics is applied biology.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!