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There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of 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.
We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.
Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.
An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and enter the army.
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.
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
If we care about life and the dignity of all life, then we care about the dignity of all life, and that includes the human life of children.
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.
The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life.
I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
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.
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.