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Human Life Quotes - Page 5

I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

"Murder is not monkey business" by David Aaronovitch, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2004.

Sympathy is the charm of human life.

Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.32, Penguin UK

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.176, Macmillan

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.1460, Modern Library