When a man’s neck’s in danger, he doesn’t stop to think too much about sentiment.
They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!
The rule of survival, he thought. Keep eye peeled regarding situation around you. Learn its demands. And — meet them. Be there at the right time doing the right thing.
The point is that one’s got an instinct to live. One doesn’t live because one’s reason assents to living. People who, as we say, ‘would be better dead,’ don’t want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven’t got the energy to fight.
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.
The enemy is any-body who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
Sometimes surviving means compromise.
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds – a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.[Notre civilisation se survit dans la complaisance d’âmes lâches ou haineuses, le vœu de gloriole de vieux adolescents.]
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
