Andrew Marvell Quotes

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Politics is applied biology.

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

If you play dead often enough, you've got a great will to live.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.