Human Life Quotes - Page 31

• Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

  Chris Hedges

  Numbers, Revolutionary, Force

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.106, Nation Books

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• Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Pain, Loneliness

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the soul, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

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• 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. Muller

  Influence, Inventor, Heard

  Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)

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• I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Order, Land, Perfect

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• Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

  Alex Kozinski

  Believe, Murder, Forfeit

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• Sympathy is the charm of human life.

  Grace Aguilar

  Inspirational, Charm, Humans

  Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65

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• I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

  Steve Gleason

  Opportunity, New Experiences, Perspective

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• Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

  Colin S. Smith

  Sacred, Life Is, Humans

  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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• The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

  Plato

  Life, Lying, Mean

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• The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

  Peter Singer

  Views, Progress, Development

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• Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hopeful, Essentials, Humans

  France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal, Benjamin Franklin (1837). “Animal Magnetism”, p.42

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• The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Ideas, Intellectual, Signals

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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• I need to learn. Joy is at the heart of God's plan for human beings. The reason for this is worth pondering awhile: Joy is at the heart of God himself. We will never understand the significance of joy in human life until we understand its importance to God. I suspect that most of us seriously underestimate God's capacity for joy.

  John Ortberg

  Heart, Joy, Needs

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Life Is, Limitless

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• War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

  Robert Muller

  War, Insanity, Degrees

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• To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Goal

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• Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

  Tryon Edwards

  Parent, Anxiety, Poison

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.86, Ravenio Books

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• The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Blood, Battle

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.1, 谷月社

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• A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.

  William Rehnquist

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Writing, Goal, Perspective

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• If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

  Nick Nolte

  Age, Groups, Stories

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• It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

  Kurt Bills

  Believe, Government, Liberty

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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 Chambliss

  Soil, Difficult, Terrorist

  "Rep. Saxby Chambliss: Anti-terrorism measures in the U.S". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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