David Mitchell Quotes

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

How precious are the souls of men!

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

You are worthy because you were born.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

Everybody is worth everything.