Quotes About Preservation

#1. We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which not only assures the preservation of its nationality, but by the development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the highest freedom.

Adolf Hitler

#2. When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.

Simon Bolivar

#3. The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

Bertha Von Suttner

#4. We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

Sri Aurobindo

#5. There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent on defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them indispensable to the preservation of society.

Henri Pirenne

#6. A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct

Sunday Adelaja

#7. In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.

Mo Udall

#8. If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

Lev Shestov

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

Felix Dennis

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

D.H. Lawrence

#11. Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.

Kellie Elmore

#12. Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

J.G. Ballard

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

Herve Falciani

#14. There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely, no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure. May God give me the courage to do my duty and not falter.

Nile Kinnick

#15. I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

Jack L. Chalker

#16. We had technology to care for us now, and we didn't need emotions. We were alone. We worked together for our preservation, but emotionally we needed no one.

Matt Haig

#17. When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.

Richard Moe

#18. I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

Elizabeth I

#19. I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation.

Heda Margolius Kovaly

#20. Neighborliness is more than a slogan here; it is, as it has always been, an essential element of self-preservation in a challenging environment. The

Ted Koppel

#21. I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

F. Sionil Jose

#22. The one thing that is braver each day than I is my sense of self-preservation It moves not, and stands not, unless it is driven by something

Elliott Colla

#23. We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying
as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Thomas Carlyle

#25. Life-shaping institutions tend to start with an idea or revelation. They often become mostly about the preservation and expansion of authority, something they relinquish only with the greatest reluctance.

Ron Suskind

#26. We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

Lewis Thomas

#27. Would I have fared better if I had stood my ground and stared down my pursuers? Could so-called self-preservation sometimes backfire and become the very cause of pain?

David Michie

#28. There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

Richard Moe

#29. Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

Gerald Durrell

#30. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

#31. I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. "Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs."
"And yet," he said softly, "you're risking everything to help me.

Kate Avery Ellison

#32. He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield.

Karen Chance

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

George W. Bush

#34. The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

Euripides

#35. Even so, the major feeling and thought that I'd like them to keep in mind is the aesthetic ability of such a film to express the need for everyone to take part in the protection and preservation of humankind and the Earth.

Martine Epoque

#36. It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#37. The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.

Daleen Van Tonder

#38. He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#39. The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

John Muir

#40. The passage, "And He rested on the seventh day" (Exod. xx. 11) is interpreted as follows: On the seventh Day the forces and laws were complete, which during the previous six days were in the state of being established for the preservation of the Universe. They were not to be increased or modified.

Maimonides

#41. By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.

David F. Houston

#42. There's a fine line between self-preservation and mummification.

Mik Everett

#43. The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

Tobias Smollett

#44. if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy.

Mons Kallentoft

#45. Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

Richard M. Nixon

#46. The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.

Sadhguru

#47. Self-respect, self-preservation, both of these things. And because you being willing to put up with my love is not good enough. Not even remotely. I'm not going to be your regular live-in fuck buddy, Jimmy, exclusive or not. Your whole offer is soul destroying.

Kylie Scott

#48. Self-preservation is an enemy of love.

Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe

#49. What do you get when you cross an egomaniacal fairy godmother, an arrogant genie, and a couple of wandering plagiarists whose idea of cultural preservation is stealing the stories of unsuspecting villagers and passing them off as their own?

Kate SeRine

#50. This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin

#51. Honor was a luxury item, like hair pomade and snuff. Its only purpose was to show the world that you could afford to be impractical, that you had enough money to behave in a way that was compatible with some ludicrous code instead of acting out of self-preservation like the rest of humanity.

Cat Sebastian

#52. Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.

Mikhail Bakunin

#53. Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation.

Thomm Quackenbush

#54. It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.

Robert Byrd

#55. The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#56. Self-preservation - this is your new focus.
The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.
Debt is hindsight.

John-Talmage Mathis

#57. There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.

Rob Stewart

#58. We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

Allen Weinstein

#59. When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#60. To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have to be risking yourself, not all the time, but enough of the time to be weighing things up, principle over self-preservation, the gains, the losses.

Patrick McGuinness

#61. I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process.

Jared Leto

#62. As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#63. I need to fight for the preservation of the Earth type planets and its coexistence with worlds after death.-Banyan

Carolina Cody Aldaz

#64. 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.

Charles Caleb Colton

#65. Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will rather bring about his ruin than his preservation.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#66. I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of publishing a newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free exercise of the right of trial by jury.

Thomas Dillon

#67. 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.

Dennis Lehane

#68. There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.

Haruki Murakami

#69. Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

David Levithan

#70. Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#71. If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

Ramez Naam

#72. Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is incapable of taking the word of reconciliation and redemption to mankind and the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Boris Sidis

#74. This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism's single most damaging legacy: the realization of its bleak vision has isolated us enough from one another that it became possible to convince us that we are not just incapable of self-preservation but fundamentally not worth saving.

Naomi Klein

#75. The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#76. All problems are simply interruptions in the transmission and preservation of data, he reminded himself.

G. Willow Wilson

#77. What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

Christopher Denham

#78. I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.

Jacques Sandulescu

#79. The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.

Adolf Hitler

#80. William Stegner ... coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it.

Rebecca Solnit

#81. When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

Larry Crabb

#82. The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self ... from within.

T.F. Hodge

#83. There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

William Shenstone

#84. Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

Margaret Anderson

#85. Self-preservation is the fundamental motive of the passions, according to Spinoza; but self-preservation alters its character when we realize that what is real and positive in us is what unites us to the whole, and not what preserves the appearance of separateness.

Anonymous

#86. Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-preservation demanded it.

Penelope Douglas

#87. Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

Marvin Harris

#88. If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#89. The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#90. It is clear that corporate America has an obligation to create a fairer, more equitable, more sustainable economy for no other reason than self-preservation.

John J. Sarno

#91. The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all?

Hope Jahren

#92. It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

James Madison

#93. The fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

Martin Buber

#94. The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

John Locke

#95. Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire
since by no means without fire could it be acquired or helpfully used by any
and he handed it there and then as a gift to man.

Plato

#96. With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

Thorstein Veblen

#97. I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy ... it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation.

Sarah Smith

#98. That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.

Jacques Derrida

#99. After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

Judith Lewis Herman

#100. Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.

Boris Sidis