Preservation Quotes

Preservation Quote of the day

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

Truly caring people know they have to take care of themselves first.

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.

...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.

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

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.

She’d said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he’d thrown it back at her. To save her. To save himself.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

She's Devine.She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that about herself. And that's what made her so magically beautiful.

I don’t know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it’s more a force to preserve freedom.

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.

That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place.

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.

Indeed His blessings are in the struggle.

Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

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.

Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

The mother-earth may not like the way we preserve her...if any.

A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct

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.

Where's your sense of adventure?It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi.-Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous.

The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us.

Beauty should never lower its guard around Appetite.

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth...

Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others.

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

​It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era

Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war.

Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncertainties of a chaotic world.