Quotes About Human life

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

Value always involves some kind of reference to the activities of persons.' The process of human life on the earth is not ruled by disembodied values but by the personalities and doings and sayings of unique individual men and women.

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

The term 'violence' refers to an event or an action that 'violates' some aspect of human life. Violence, then, is always connected with suffering. But not all suffering involves the quality of violence. The pain of guilt that a person feels may be so deep and may spread through his awareness so gradually that not fore of 'violence' is detectable.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it

Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can't resist because all the great themes of human life - duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy - you find all those things within families.

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

The notion that the levels of radiation would be damaging to human life is preposterous. It's simply not true. It is a political claim more than it is a scientific claim. THAAD has been a thoroughly tested system, and it has been extremely effective.