Preservation Quotes

In wilderness is the preservation of the world. (Henry David Thoreau)
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. View quote
Dian Fossey
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. View quote
Richard Dawkins
To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own that thing is the preservation of their own liberties and institutions. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. View quote
John Locke
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. View quote
Elihu Root
At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible. (Cliff Stearns)
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. View quote
William Robertson Smith
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation. View quote
Auguste Comte
The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end... View quote
Maimonides
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. View quote
Augustus
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil. View quote
Walter Raleigh
If the national park idea is the best idea America ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea. View quote
Wallace Stegner
This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve. View quote
George W. Bush
There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization. (Lev Artsimovich)
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal. View quote
Pietro Aretino
Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. View quote
Gerald Durrell
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion. View quote
Chuck Jones
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation. View quote
Warren G. Harding