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"The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival."
"We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature."
"Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow."
"They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease."
"After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world."
"The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences."
"Peace is the Only Way for the survival of Humanity"
"I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival."
"The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival."
"We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before."
"This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival."
"The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity."
"Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake."
"Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species."
"What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?"
"Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors."
"It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival."
"The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep."
"Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie , concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man."
"Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless."
