Coretta Scott King
Civil Rights Activist
"Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life."
Human Life quotes
Human Life
119 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted."
Tao Lin
Author and Poet
"Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same."
David Hume
Philosopher, Historian
"Custom is the great guide to human life."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all."
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"It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good."
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"To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition."
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"Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?"
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"Communal well-being is central to human life."
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"Individuality is very important for a full human life."
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"A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life."
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"What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion."
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"Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself."
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"Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age."
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"Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants."
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"Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful."
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"As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life."
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"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."
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"To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life."
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"The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning."
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"Hope is an essential constituent of human life."
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"If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work."
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"Love is the true condition of human life."
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"The basic condition of human life is happiness."
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"Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life."
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