#human life

Human life is beyond comprehension. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#comprehension #human #human life #life

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. ↗

— Max Nordau

#before #built #citizens #civilization #crimes

Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#bill #brown #difficult #dignity #given

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. ↗

— Theodor Svedberg

#been #changes #conditions #formed #foundation

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. ↗

— Peter Singer

#human #human life #just #just because #life

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#creativity #darkness #human #human life #itself

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#between #childhood #folly #human #human life

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#cannot #debate #feel #human #human life

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#bring #does #history #hour #human

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

#believe #capital #conception #death #except