Quotes About Survival Instincts

#1. Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

#2. There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all
animals with only survival instincts.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. He may be deaf and a little hard of thinking, but elderly wizards have very well-trained survival instincts, and they know that when a tall figure in a black robe and the latest in agricultural handtools starts looking thoughtfully at you it is time to act fast.

Terry Pratchett

#4. What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things ... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

Michael Moore

#5. It's like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for love, even their life. And don't you see, that's a denial of the most basic of all human instincts: survival.

Benjamin Percy

#6. What has happened to America's survival instincts?

Tina Brown

#7. There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

Pat Summitt

#8. Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

Bruce H. Lipton

#9. One of the most primal survival instincts the brain has is finding pattern and assigning meaning. When there is a breakdown, it will scramble to find those patterns again as quickly as possible.

Eileen Cook

#10. Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

Richard Branson

#11. Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

Alan W. Watts

#12. She might not have the same survival instincts as us.' 'It's amazing,' said Jeeves. 'You keep talking and you keep coming up with things, and yet not one of them is ever remotely comforting.' 'It's a gift,' I said.

Simon R. Green

#13. Dum walks backwards, talking to us. We're going back to high school where our survival instincts are at their finest.

Susan Ee

#14. Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.

Jocelyn Murray

#15. Choices, Choices, Choices!
Listen to your instincts; you will make the best-choices.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.

Jay Rock

#17. The day people will start using their learner's instincts instead of the survival instincts in the education, our society will no longer be a place where education kills your knowledge.

Ameya Agrawal

#18. I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

Gore Vidal

#19. The idea here is that we are less wicked than we are weak. As sarx - as mortal animals - we are playthings of the devil, who uses the fear of death to push and pull our survival instincts (our fleshly, sarx-driven passions) to keep us as "slaves to sin.

Richard Beck

#20. It's amazing how many times we need to go against our survival instincts to survive.

Susan Ee

#21. We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.

Alan Weisman

#22. I don't think you're going to start a riot, but until you prove you have more survival instincts than a seriously stressed out lemming, you'll stay at the bar.

Kim Dare

#23. Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

Zoe Bell

#24. 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

#25. History is a strange creature. It has the amazing ability to blind us with our own reflection when we peek over its deep mysterious waters. Many of us drown in it just like the mythological Narcissus, whose infatuation with his own beauty was stronger than his survival instincts.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#26. There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be.

Patricia Briggs

#27. You have the survival instincts of a suicidal squirrel

Marguerite Labbe

#28. Survival instincts screamed at her to run. White agony dropped her in place.

Dale Mayer

#29. Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

Kiersten White

#30. Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

Jaggi Vasudev