Preservation Quotes

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.

For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.