Survival Of The Fittest Quotes

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive.

~ Toba Beta

Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

~ Robert J. Sawyer

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

~ Leon C. Megginson

My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization. The size and the importance of the United States throws on you a special responsibility in your endeavours to safeguard the future of our race. Those who are attending your Congress will be aiding in this endeavour, and though you will gain no thanks from your own generation, posterity will, I believe, learn to realize the great dept it owes to all the workers in this field.

~ Leonard Darwin

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

~ Charles Darwin

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on 'The Survival of the Fittest.' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

~ Mark Twain

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.(Letter to A. R. Wallace July 1866)

~ Charles Darwin

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

~ Francis Maitland Balfour

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

~ Theodosius Dobzhansky

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, one might say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals; a small number turned out to be constructed in such fashion that the parts of the animal could satisfy its needs; in another, infinitely greater number, there was neither suitability nor order: all of the later have perished; animals without a mouth could not live, others lacking organs for reproduction could not perpetuate themselves: the only ones to have remained are those in which were found order and suitability; and these species, which we see today, are only the smallest part of what blind fate produced.

~ Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

~ Peter Watts

Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.

~ Carrie Ryan

There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.

~ Cary Caffrey

The lucky ones died in the blasts. They were spared the fate of starvation, cannibalism, rape and slaughter. Where a man could be killed over half-eaten can of corn.

~ Joe Reyes

Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Roaches should never trust humans. We’re all doomed.

~ La Tisha Honor

This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.

~ Jennifer Arnett

Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A politician is a man in his natural state

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or international levels

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

door I thought about life and how it resembled a ladder. Do you ever feel that way? Like life is one big uphill climb and there are always more people and circumstances tripping us and trying to pull us back down the ladder, while very, very few people ever stop to give us a hand up. “Fend for yourselves ,” seems more like the motto of the world. Survival of the fittest doesn’t exactly leave room for encouragement.

~ Marilyn Grey

Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Feeling like, life has been so unfair to me, but what can I say except, I'm still here. So I'm determined to make the best out of it, take every opportunity as a blessing, and live the rest of my life to the fullest.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it's all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive.

~ Auliq Ice

Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana