Pastoral Resources

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Survival is triumph enough.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.