I can’t be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive. – James Baldwin
We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life. – Pope Francis
I want to live, however briefly, knowing that my life is finite. Mortality gives meaning to human life. Peace, love, friendship. These are precious because we know they cannot endure. A butterfly that lives forever is really not a butterfly at all. – Lt. Cmdr. Data Star Trek: Picard, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2’.
“I have no wish to take life, not even human life,” repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 4. After hitting a boy on the head with one of his hooves.
Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life! – Herb Kelleher
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? – Henry David Thoreau
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. – Freeman Dyson
All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong. – Neil Gorsuch
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. – Elihu Root
The science is settled; it’s not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception. – Marco Rubio
Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn’t have the answers. – Roger Ebert
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. – Samuel Johnson
Human life is full of the play of samskaras – tendencies developed by repeated actions. – Vinoba Bhave
