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Survival Of The Fittest Quotes

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.
- Janet Evanovich

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
- Andrew Carnegie

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
- Bill Cosby

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
- Ty Cobb

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

...it obeys none of the natural laws of hereditary and environmental change, pays no attention to the survival of the fittest, positively sneers at any attempt on the part of man to work out a rational life cycle, is possibly immortal, unquestionably immoral, evidences anabolism but not katabolism, ruts, spawns, and breeds but does not reproduce, lays no eggs, builds no nests, seeks but does not find, wanders but does not rest.
- Charles G Finney

See, they say it's 'survival of the fittest', but you and I really know that it's 'survival of the most heavily armed
- Lia Habel

That's the problem with survival of the fittest... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.
- Wally Lamb

That's the trouble with survival of the fittest, isn't it, Dominick? The corpse at your feet. That little inconvenience.
- Wally Lamb

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
- Lily Tomlin

There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren't even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The world hadn't changed. It had always been survival of the fittest.
- Claire Merle

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
- Grace Paley

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
- George Reisman

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.
- Elihu Root

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
- Solomon Short

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"
- Josiah Strong

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.
- Natsuki Takaya

Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut....They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell on the floor, a classic example of survival of the fittest
- Molly Wizenberg

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