Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connections they have found worth ma...rking, in the lifetimes of many generations; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of the survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our armchairs of an afternoon--the most favored alternative method.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the... advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost--for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it ...: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in... accumulating wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his pa...per 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but... it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless nigh...t. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human b...eings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women have learned the language of power, an add-on to their emotional fluency and a skill required for the financial survival of ...the family--but the cultural rewards for their twin efforts are slim indeed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with ...scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »