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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. -- Stephen Hawking
Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race. -- Bernard Marcus
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. -- Lili Taylor
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. -- Taylor Caldwell
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. -- Tom G. Palmer
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. -- E. O. Wilson
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. -- Richard Dawkins
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink. -- Frank Lowy
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. -- Noam Chomsky
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever. -- David Perlmutter
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival. -- David Perlmutter
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. -- Germaine Greer
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. -- Noam Chomsky
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. -- Jimmy Carter
Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time. -- Dhani Jones
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. -- Adrienne Rich
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. -- Donald Johanson
There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. -- Barbara Demick
I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival. -- Dalai Lama
We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race. -- Anousheh Ansari
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. -- Richard Louv
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. -- Rene Dubos
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor. -- Edward Abbey
Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace. -- Dalai Lama
As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight -- Noam Chomsky
We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival. -- Rusty Schweickart
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. -- Bertrand Russell
Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit. -- Danitra Vance
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. -- Desmond Morris
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. -- Daniel Suarez
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We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. -- Carl Sagan
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. -- Richard Leakey
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival. -- Kirkpatrick Sale
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest -- Thabo Mbeki
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -- Albert Einstein
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. -- Barry Commoner
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. -- Scott McCloud
For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. -- Warren Farrell
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival. -- Dalai Lama XIV
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species. -- Buzz Aldrin
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. -- Dalai Lama
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation. -- Daniel Goleman
Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else. -- Laura Huxley
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. -- Dalai Lama
Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats. -- Selma Fraiberg
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival. -- Bertrand Russell
Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival. -- Stanley Milgram
We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival. -- Rusty Schweickart

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