Survival Instinct Quotes

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.

Since 1914, we have endured world wars, genocides and government-sponsored famines, not to mention civil strife, riots and murders. Altogether, we have killed a staggering 100 million to 200 million of our own kind. But over the century, about 10 billion lives were lived — which means that just 1 to 2 percent of the world’s population died violently. Those lucky enough to be born in the 20th century were on average 10 times less likely to come to a grisly end than those born in the Stone Age.

Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

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

The justice of our cause and not the greatness of our race makes us confident. But we are not ruthless enough, not vicious, not aggressive, therein lies a weakness. Children of a free and sheltered people who have lived the generous life, we have not the poor nations’ disposition of those oppressed beasts, our enemies who must fight or starve

If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death---like MEN.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.