Human Life Quotes - Page 7

• The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Men, Giving, Purpose

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• I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, America, Today

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• The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Compassion, Men

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• All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Past, Annoyed

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.37, U of Nebraska Press

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• Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Rights, Sight, Effort

  "Pope Benedict on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11". the-american-catholic.com. September 11, 2011.

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• All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

  Haniel Long

  Spiritual, Brotherhood, Live For Today

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• The impact of space activities
  is nothing less than the galvanizing
  of hope and imagination for human life continuum
  into a future of infinite possibility.

  Vanna Bonta

  Impact, Space, Imagination

  "The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society". Book co-sponsored by The International Academy of Astronautics and The European Space Agency, February 2005.

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• Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But if, as we believe, human life resulted from a purposeful act of God, and if sin is inevitable for such beings, and if the human soul is the prize for which Satan and God do battle, then it hardly makes sense to have this same process repeated on countless other planets throughout the cosmos.

  Dave Hunt

  Believe, Soul, Battle

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• Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.

  Jacob Needleman

  Life, Time, Philosophy

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• Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Slavery, Break

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.146, Discovery House

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• Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Life, Nature, Men

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• The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

  Bo Lozoff

  World, Causes, Problem

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• I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

  Pope Francis

  Appreciation, Movement, Association

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• Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Laughing, Tragedy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

  Laurie Colwin

  Two, Long, People

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• Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Men, Civilization

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Russia, Theme

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.10, Penguin

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• Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.

  Douglas Harding

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Heart

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• Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty or ugliness, love or compassion, joy or sorrow. Will a chair ever feel sorry or happy? No, matter does not have these finer values. They belong to the realm of the spirit. But life is also more than spirit. If it were just spirit, there would be no need for water, food, or rest. Human life is a combination of both matter and spirit.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Sorry, Compassion, Water

  "The Qualities of a Spiritual Life" by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.

  Pope John Paul II

  World, Sacred, Life Is

  Pope John Paul II (1979). “U.S.A.--the Message of Justice, Peace, and Love: Pastoral Visit of Pope John Paul II, October 1-7, 1979”

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• The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

  Steve Hagen

  Fleeting, Lasts, Return

  Steve Hagen (2009). “Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs”, p.227, Zondervan

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• True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Human Nature, Life And Change, Humans

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• In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Change, Art, Frustration

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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 Selasi

  Party, Ghana, Humans

  "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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