Human Life Quotes - Page 37

• Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.

  David Benatar

  Life, Baby, Sex

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Years, Development, Christianity

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• The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom of the race. They are renewed in time of conflict and danger.

  Frederick Osborn

  Life, Spring, Race

  "American Education and Soviet Propaganda".

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• To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

  Clifford Geertz

  Life, Nature, Congratulations

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• Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, War, Pestilence

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

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• Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Symbolism, Fancy

  Alfred North Whitehead (1985). “Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect”, p.61, Fordham Univ Press

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• Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Psychology, Fields

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

  Gordon Allport

  Dog, Offering, Long

  "A Psychological Interpretation". Book by Gordon Allport, p. 199, 1938.

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• To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mistake, Law, Psychology

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• The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'

  Christopher West

  Sex, Divorce, Cutting

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• The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

  Pope John Paul II

  Catholic, All Time, Humans

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• There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

  Pope John Paul II

  Ideas, Abortion, Catholic

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• I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Sky, Important

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• So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Roots

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

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

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Dancing, Mood

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• The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives.

  Katharine Hamnett

  Clothes, May, Lows

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• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  Jacob Bronowski

  Events, Pay, Life Is

  "The Reach of Imagination". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1967.

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• You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

  Norma McCorvey

  Book, Dignity, Natural

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

  James Gunn

  Ideas, Single Life, Periods

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• Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

  Elihu Root

  Chance, Life Is, Quarrels

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

  Tom Scholz

  Animal, Thinking, America

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• 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.

  Wellington Mara

  Taken, Century, Wells

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• He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Mirrors, Profound

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.133, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

  Rob Bishop

  Fighting, Rights, Careers

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• The Rosary, especially prayed in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, is a powerful means of spiritual grace. In all of our efforts to promote the sanctity of human life, prayer is our first and strongest resource. May we rely upon the power of our Lord's presence in the Blessed Sacrament and the intercession of His Blessed Mother to guide and help us in fostering a greater respect for human life and an end to abortion in our society.

  Thomas Vose Daily

  Mother, Spiritual, Prayer

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