Richard Dawkins Quotes

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

You don't often get a choice in who your enemies are, who you're friends with, what your situation is, and the environment you're placed in. You just have to make do with what you have.

All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

If you put a person in a training gym made out of entire gold, it doesn't guarantee that this person will become a champion. But if you put a person in the basement, then there is a high chance that he will get out of this basement as a champion.

Both 'Saturday Church' and 'Pose' are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.

This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream.

As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

I come from a sense of struggle, a sense of using the instruments that were given to me to manipulate the environment in which I found myself, and joined up with those who are equally as skillful at manipulating that environment, as was I.

We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.