Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.
To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life. . . but what is that something?
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.
Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.
Nothing in human life is inherently private.
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.
The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.