Quotes with preservation

  • Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

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  • Voltaire Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
    On Heroes 5
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Audre Lorde Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
    A Burst of Light: And Other Essays (2017)
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • John Locke Government has no other end but the preservation of Property
    Second Treatise Ch. 17
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Agnes Macphail I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Agnes Macphail If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Henry David Thoreau In wildness is the preservation of the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert Hewison Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
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  • Douglas Macarthur No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Andrew Marvell Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Caleb Cushing Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Sam Houston The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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  • Boris Sidis The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
    Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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