Human Life Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

  Tony Abbott

  Needs, Treated, Humans

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

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• I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Creating, Issues

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

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• I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Technology, Thinking, Giving

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• Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Work, Welfare, Source

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• The true object of human life is play.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Life Is, Humans

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• The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Tragedy, Ladders, Limits

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.81, Rabindranath Tagore

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• If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

  James P. Gorman

  Technology, Plumbing, Contribution

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• Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Beautiful, Religion, Humans

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• Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

  Aristotle

  Business, Toil, Doe

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• The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

  William Penn

  Lying, Answers, May

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• Individuality is very important for a full human life.

  Dalai Lama

  Individuality, Important, Humans

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• A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

  Dalai Lama

  Work, Machines, Kind

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