Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
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?"
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?
He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
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.
But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man.
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.
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.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
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.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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.
It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
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."
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