Human Life Quotes - Page 24

• The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.

  David E. Cooper

  Way, Reason, Easy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

  Claude-Michel Schonberg

  Touching, Kind, Relevant

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I believe every human life is a gift from God and we should cherish and protect and celebrate them.

  Ted Cruz

  Believe, Life Is, Cherish

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

  Ted Cruz

  Culture, Moments, Natural

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

  Amartya Sen

  Believe, Should Have, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could extract ourselves from our point of view and sort of look down at human life the way a biologist looks at other organisms, I think we could see it a different way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Views, Different

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very slight variation from one language to another, and by the remarkable respects in which all languages are the same. And then he would notice we do not pay any attention to that because for the purpose of human life it is quite natural and appropriate just to take for granted everything that is common. We don't concern ourselves with that, all we worry about are differences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Differences, Worry, Would Be

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, People, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Pregnancy, Reality, Office

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Medicine, Political, Helping

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What we get from all religions especially from the Prophet's life, peace be upon him, is that there is no way to reach peace if we are not ready to sacrifice, not ready to strive, not courageous enough to face the powers here and the dictators who don't care about humanity or human life.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Sacrifice, Humanity, Care

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that well correlated with gross domestic product. We also have to think about equality among groups. And freedom of speech and religion. China always ranks near the top of developing countries these days, but there are lots of things we might see as lacking in China.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

  Lionel Shriver

  Desire, Burning, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

  Alex Kozinski

  Watches, Should, Willing

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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

  Design, Tragedy, Shapes

  Alvar Aalto, Karl Fleig, Elissa Aalto (1990). “Alvar Aalto: 1963-1970 (3. Aufl.)”

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• Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Reality, Common

  "Practical Compassion: An Interview with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Heidi Bruce, www.yesmagazine.org. April 12, 2012.

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• If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spring, Years, Enemy

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• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  Gary Bauer

  Party, Issues, Political

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• Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet, War, Wine

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.222

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• The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Numbers, Balance

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• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

  John Boehner

  Cells, Research, Way

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• Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Creativity, Gestation Period

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

  Robert Casey

  Respect, Religious, Political

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• A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Believe, Abortion

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