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Quotes About Human life

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
~ John Hodgman
What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.
~ Joanne Liu
We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
~ Katha Pollitt
The earth appears fragile and defenceless in the harsh environment of space and when one sees the amount of technology required to keep a human alive in that environment, one begins to feel blessed that one is an inhabitant of planet earth that supports human life.
~ Rakesh Sharma
Religion has at one time or another been thought to fill four main roles in human life: explanation, exhortation, consolation and inspiration.
~ Richard Dawkins
The end of economic growth does not necessarily mean we've reached the end of qualitative improvements in human life.
~ Richard Heinberg
The new Sufi tariqahs founded at this time stressed the unlimited potential of human life. Sufis could experience on the spiritual plane what the Mongols had so nearly achieved in terrestrial politics
~ Karen Armstrong
All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into a material force.
~ Karl Marx
Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...
~ Cesar Chavez
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
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.
~ Satish Kumar
When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
~ Shinya Yamanaka
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
~ Alvar Aalto
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
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
~ Ivan Pavlov
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
The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.
~ Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
~ Sri Aurobindo
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.
~ Henry Edward Manning
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
~ Julia Ward Howe
Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional.
~ Autumn Morning Star
Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity
~ Chinonye J. Chidolue
The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
~ H. G. Wells