“Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“There's not much to say about loneliness, for it's not a broad subject. Any child, alone in her room, can journey across… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Human life, at its best, is fantastic. I’m asking you to create something even greater. Life that is truly humane.” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The conflict stirred up by new ideas can be so devastating only because so much of human life is lived in the… — Kathleen Taylor Copy Share Image
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“Human life, Borges said, is a cascade of possible directions, and we take only one, or we perceive that we take only… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image