The Best Survival Quotes To Get You Through The Coming Collapse

There is value in knowing quotes, they can be looked to in hard times for motivation and moral support. They’re a tool that should be in every urban survivalist’s arsenal, not just for the individuals sake but also for providing support to other people who are having a difficult time dealing with disaster/situation.

Survival Quotes for the Coming Collapse

“Only the strong survive.”
~Namibian Proverb

“Rule of survival: Pack your own parachute.”
~T.L. Hakala

“When there is food on the table you may have many problems.
When there is no food you will have only one problem.”
~Ancient Chinese Proverb

“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

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
~Winston Churchill

“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

“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.”
~Christian Lous Lange

“Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.”
~Jacque Fresco

“Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.”
~Stephen Hawking

“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.”
~Aung San Suu Kyi

“There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.”
~Noam Chomsky

“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
~Adlai E. Stevenson

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
~Adlai E. Stevenson

“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

“At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.”
~Stanislav Grof

“The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.”
~Rutherford B. Hayes

“That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It’s such a powerful force.”
~Danny Boyle

“Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.”
~Henri Frederic Amiel

“In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.”
~Stanislav Grof

“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.”
~Marian Wright Edelman

“I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.”
~Margaret J. Wheatley

“Doesn’t the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.”
~Imelda Marcos

“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.”
~Germaine Greer

“Humor can be one of our best survival tools.”
~Allen Klein

“The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.”
~Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.”
~Arnold J. Toynbee

“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
~Wendell Berry

“The planet’s survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.”
~Elias Canetti

“This generation has given up on growth. They’re just hoping for survival.”
~Penelope Spheeris

“Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.”
~Anita Roddick

“In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.”
~Katherine Dunn

“Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.”
~Hu Jintao

“Survival is nothing more than recovery.”
~Dianne Feinstein

“It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.”
~Hideki Tojo

“Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival.”
~Carlos P. Romulo

“In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.”
~Andrew Young

“It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.”
~Tom G. Palmer

“When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.”
~Nursultan Nazarbayev

“Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.”
~Robert Nozick

“They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn’t the right word. I call it survival.”
~Russel Honore

“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.”
~Kenichi Fukui

“The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.”
~Mo Udall

“Survival is triumph enough.”
~Harry Crews

“Hope for the best, plan for the worst”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
~Not Darwin

“Work Together, Survive Together”

“Piss Poor Planning Leads to Piss Poor Performance”