Human Life Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

  Simon Callow

  Gone, Humans

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• Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Soul, Body

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• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  Rene Dubos

  Struggle, Adventure, Independent

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• The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Unique, Years, Eight

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

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• Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

  Caroline Knapp

  Mother, Dog, Short Life

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Ignorance

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

  Keith O'Brien

  Government, Support, Pieces

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• I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

  Tara Reid

  Lots Of Friends, Would Be, Hiv

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• 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.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Thinking, Purpose, Earth

  "Speaking of Science Fiction". Book by Paul Walker, 1978.

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• The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Joy

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• The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

  George C. Williams

  Views, Decision, Helping

  George C. Williams (2014). “The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature”, p.160, Basic Books

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• I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

  Criss Jami

  Baseball, Children, Drinking

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• To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mean, Difficult Choices, Safety

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• I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Age, Scratches

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.

  Ben Brantley

  Voice, Mail, Messages

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• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  Jack Kemp

  Children, Miscarriage, Wife

  "In His Own Words: Jack Kemp And The Issues", www.nytimes.com. August 11, 1996.

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• It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.

  Anna Kingsford

  Matter, Humane, Humans

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• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

  Leon Trotsky

  Vegetarian, Quaker, Sacredness

  Leon Trotsky (2014). “The Defence of Terrorism (Routledge Revivals): Terrorism and Communism”, p.60, Routledge

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• Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

  W. H. Auden

  Communication, Life Is, Humans

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• There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.

  Bill Moyers

  Animal, Men, Ark

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• The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Intelligent, Thinking, Class

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Taken, Risk, Criminals

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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

  Creating, Community, Humans

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2006.

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