Human Life Quotes - Page 11

• How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that everytime a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning.

  Pentti Linkola

  Children, Independent, Men

  "The Doctrine Of Survival And Doctor Ethics", Personal website, www.penttilinkola.com. June 29, 2006.

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• Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track, some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war is part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and--there you have it: Holocaust

  Richard Weikart

  War, Struggle, Eugenics

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• The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

  Wesley J. Smith

  Simple, Profound, Doe

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• Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Love Is, Thinking

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...
  Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Pain, Real, Lying

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• The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Song, Revenge, Ocean

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• To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Belloc: A Biographical Anthology”

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• Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.

  Lewis Mumford

  Wisdom, Men, Civilization

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

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• Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Philosophy, Real, Atheism

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• Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.

  Paul Kurtz

  Independent, Opportunity, Destiny

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• Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Dust

  Lucretius (2011). “On the Nature of Things”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A lot of Republican candidate will tell you they'll protect innocent human life and they'll hunt down ISIS and get rid of Common Core, but we're actually doing things in our state. We need a doer, not a talker.

  Bobby Jindal

  Isis, Needs, Doers

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memorial, Opinion, Improvement

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

  Coretta Scott King

  Justice, Death Penalty, Humans

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• When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Water, Soul

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• Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature

  Naomi Klein

  War, Law, Economic Models

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Common Humanity, Diversity, People

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• What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

  H. L. Mencken

  May, Humans, Knows

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• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Fly Away

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• Human life must be some form of mistake.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Mistake, Form

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• The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Routine, Natural

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Trying, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

  Pliny the Elder

  Death, Sovereign, Humans

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• Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humanity, Church, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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