Best Human Life Proverbs
946 Human Life quotes by 668 unique authors
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Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have…
— Pope Francis
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My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage,…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material…
— Huey Newton
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The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral…
— Howard Lyman
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have…
— Jeanette Winterson
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For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it…
— Bill Viola
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Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of…
— Alan Keyes
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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
— C.S. Lewis
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It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which…
— Rudolf Bultmann
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The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the…
— Mortimer Adler
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
— William Hazlitt
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The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human…
— Anna Howard Shaw
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and…
— Thomas A. Edison
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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not…
— Christopher Dawson
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The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.
— Pope Paul VI
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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have…
— Franz Boas
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Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and…
— Frederick Sanger
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What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is…
— James Madison
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong…
— Herman Wouk
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