Human Life Quotes - Page 22

• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Blood, Order

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• In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.

  Michael Ruse

  Religious, Lying, Stories

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• Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Deception, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

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• The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Christian, Eye, Deeds Done

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Determination, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.142

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• Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Self, Desire

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• Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a bad one. We need to take a conscious, intentional hand in the developmental process. We need to understand what the formation of the human spirit is, and how it can best be done as Christ would have it done. This is an indispensable aspect of developing a psychology that is adequate to human life.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Hands, Psychology

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• The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... . Energy is fundamentally an environmental improver and if we classify it that way it makes sense out of a lot of these controversies... . It's our obligation and our right to make [our environment] as good for human beings as possible. With that view, it's very easy for people to understand precisely the reason it's good to alter it - because it doesn't naturally come the way we need it to be.

  Alex Epstein

  Keys, Views, People

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• It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't maistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Moon, Names

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Patterns, Schemes, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.217, Psychology Press

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• Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Hypocrisy, Doe

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• There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.

  W. S. Merwin

  Needs, Attention, Pay

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• To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Purpose, Humans

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• We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

  James Hansen

  Atmosphere, Climate, Heat

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• Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

  Gautama Buddha

  Long, Water, Suffering

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• Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

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  Ram Dass

  Age, Doe, Humans

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• I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

  John McCain

  Needs, Lectures, Life Is

  "Election 2000: In Final Debate Before New Hampshire Primary, Republican Candidates Engage in 90-Minute Slug-Fest". cnn.com. January 27, 2000.

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• There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Matter, Spirit, Tough

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine, and sympathetic rain. On the other hand, the rock is often broken through exposure to nature and weathering. Life is a strong power to grow in tenderness; this fact may be considered as having a close relation with human life. At the same time tenderness has sometimes stronger power against stiffness or hardening due to extreme strain.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Weed, Strong, Growing Up

  "The Canon of Judo". Book by Kyuzo Mifune, 1956.

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• 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

  Corporations, Making Money, Slave

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.

  Annalee Newitz

  Engineering, Years, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like youth, and I like stories about feeling things intensely and about transitional moments in human life. I reflect on my life and that's just a moment when I felt things probably the most intensely.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  I Like You, Feelings, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• What I remember most from reporting both the stories are the women. Going into the first piece, I didn't have a super fixed idea about abortion. I'd helped a high school friend get to a doctor once. I always assumed that what a woman did was up to her. But I could also see the pro-life point of view that human life should be sacred in whatever gestational form.

  John H Richardson

  School, Views, Ideas

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.

  Tom DeLonge

  Believe, Thinking, Needs

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

  Meital Dohan

  Israel, Hands, Life Is

  "Exclusive Song Premiere and Interview: ‘on Ya,’ Meital Feat. Sean Kingston". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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