Nancy Werlin Quotes

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

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

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Self preservation is the first law of nature and governments.

A man's own safety is a god that sometimes makes very grim demands.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

As we get older, we become more political in terms of survival. We realize a certain amount of cunning is necessary and that you just end up a victim when you are totally honest in an environment where those around you arent. It's a matter of remaining true to yourself while continuing to move forward.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Our obligation is to ourselves and obligating to ourselves the job of defending and protecting America is how we serve other people around the world, not by letting this country go to hell. We are under no such obligation.

My rule is to save myself first.

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

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.

I’m fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don’t defend myself, no one else will.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.