Best 179 quotes in «human life quotes» category

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

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

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

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

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.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

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

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Miracles do happen in every human life.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

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

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

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

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.

The land is like poetry:   it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.