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By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature… — James G. Frazer
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population… — Rene Dubos
It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for… — Georges Bataille
It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less… — Steven Weinberg
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not… — Ronald Reagan
And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more… — Ronald Reagan
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of… — Anthony Kennedy
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were,… — Soren Kierkegaard
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine,… — J. G. Ballard
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against… — Sigmund Freud
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are… — John Berger
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,… — Edith Hamilton
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on… — William DeWitt Hyde
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up… — Howard Zinn
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit,… — Bruce Lee
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before — Ron Silver
I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that… — Patricia Heaton
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to… — John Cassavetes
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core… — Unknown Author
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable… — John Derbyshire
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. — Yitzhak Rabin

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