Top 41 Quotes About Taking Human Life
#1. 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
#2. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.
Joe Meno
#3. I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
Tom Coburn
#4. Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?
Mo Yan
#5. How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#7. One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North
personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)
Marshall McLuhan
#8. Superhuman' is an extraordinary personality living in the godliness and wisdom taking over the human intelligence, a pure eternal life, driven by the divine force, living for the welfare of the mankind unconditionally. Superhumans are those who live to unite with the Supreme Power.
Vishal Chipkar
#9. The smallest component of the human molecule is a vibration - the equivalent to a musical note. Taking the time to learn more self-awareness at this level creates life experiences beyond that of all the greatest symphonies ever heard
Gary Hopkins
#10. In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
Karl Taylor Compton
#11. I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.
Wim Wenders
#12. Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.
Richard M. Nixon
#13. He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions
it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.
Benjamin Zander
#14. A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.
Robert Casey
#16. The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.
Jeff Cooper
#17. To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being ... it's like taking on another person's life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
Edward G. Robinson
#18. In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#19. When a human being is brought up with the concern of simply taking care of his body and the external aspect of his life, he is acting as though he is only biomass
Sunday Adelaja
#20. My fruit grows on other people's trees.
Bob Buford
#21. Marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.
John Eldredge
#23. Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.
Sarah Dessen
#24. One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?
Ellen McLaughlin
#25. 'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
Harrison Ford
#26. The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.
Konrad Lorenz
#27. America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
Dick Gregory
#28. I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness ... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
Peter Zumthor
#29. We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.
Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne
#30. I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.
Paul Krugman
#31. When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
Ziggy Marley
#32. A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work
Steve Jobs
#33. Death is the privilege of human nature
And life without it were not worth our taking
Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner
Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.
Elizabeth Fama
#34. It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#35. Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#36. The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process ... Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.
Ban Ki-moon
#37. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually ... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life ... every second of it ... Is all we have.
Anne Rice
#38. The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
George Jean Nathan
#40. To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#41. Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Gary Bauer