quotes about Human Life
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I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
-- Aileen Wuornos -
It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.
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Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The land is like poetry:Â Â it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
-- Barry Lopez -
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Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...
-- Carl Jung -
Communal well-being is central to human life.
-- Cat Stevens -
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
-- Catherine DohertySource : Catherine de Hueck Doherty (2009). “Catherine de Hueck Doherty: Essential Writings”
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A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
-- Charles Colson -
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The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.
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In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
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Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
-- Colin S. SmithSource : Colin S. Smith (2016). “The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life: Finding Freedom in God's Commands”, p.67, Moody Publishers
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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
-- Coretta Scott King -
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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
All human life can be found in an airport.
-- David Walliams -
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
-- George H. SmithSource : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books
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Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.
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Sympathy is the charm of human life ...
-- Grace AguilarSource : Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
-- Hamilton Wright MabieSource : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My Study Fire: First Series”
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
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Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
-- Henry Moore -
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
-- Herbert J. MullerSource : Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)
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Sports is human life in microcosm.
-- Howard CosellSource : HOWARD COSELL (1973). “COSELL”
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Sports is the toy department of human life.
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We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
-- J. I. Packer -
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
-- James G. FrazerSource : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
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If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.
-- James P. Gorman -
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (1984). “Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, second series”, Oxford Univ Pr
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I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.
-- Jerry VlasakSource : "Murder is not monkey business" by David Aaronovitch, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2004.
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I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
-- John Lennon -
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.
-- Jonah Goldberg -
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset -
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.
-- Karen HorneySource : Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.23, Routledge
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Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.
-- Kenneth MinogueSource : Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.13, Oxford Paperbacks
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Human life commences at the time of conception.
-- Landrum Shettles -
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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
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A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.
-- Mas Oyama -
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
-- Mortimer Adler -
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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
-- Muriel BarberySource : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?
-- Oswald Chambers -
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Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death
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Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
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Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.
-- Randall JarrellSource : "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 22), 1955.
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It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.
-- Saxby ChamblissSource : "Rep. Saxby Chambliss: Anti-terrorism measures in the U.S". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.
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Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
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All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
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Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
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Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
-- Taiye SelasiSource : "African Writer Helps Put Her Community On Media Map". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 20, 2011.
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Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
-- Tao LinSource : Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub
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True love can alter human lives and change human nature.
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We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
-- Tony Abbott -
Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.
-- Tony Abbott -
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Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.
-- W. H. Auden -
Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.
-- Wallace D. Wattles -
The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.
-- Wei Wu Wei -
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
-- Wellington Mara -
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
-- Will Rogers -
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
-- William Sloane Coffin -
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
-- Yamamoto TsunetomoSource : Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.23, Xist Publishing
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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
-- Yukio Mishima -
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As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.
-- Claude-Michel SchonbergSource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.
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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
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Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.
-- Max Anders -
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Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why.
-- Mpho Koaho -
Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.
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Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.
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For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.
-- Ingrid MichaelsonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
-- Tibor R. MachanSource : Tibor R. Machan (2003). “The Passion for Liberty”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield