Quotes for All
On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that’s not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess. Gabrielle Zevin
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life. G. Stanley Hall
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. G. H. Hardy
Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life. G. E. M. Anscombe
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. Euripides
The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life. Eudora Welty
Human life is fiction’s only theme. Eudora Welty
We’ve wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means – have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption … Read more
Even if man’s hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, ‘he’ is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and … Read more
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government. Eric Hoffer