#viv

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. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#essential #existence #freedom #human #human existence

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. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#cultural #deficit #even #history #human

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#energy #had #his #hunter #life

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. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#hard #however #long #may #road

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #classic-quotes #divine-blessings #divinity #faith

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. ↗

— John Ciardi

#character #further #goes #his #liberation

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#against #earth #easy #extreme #forms

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#her #into #marry #night #out

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#beginning #book #forward #i #imagination

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#carefully #everything #first #first of all #good