Human Life Quotes
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
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.
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.
Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.
Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
