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.

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.

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.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

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.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?