Phyllis Bottome Quotes

If we care about life and the dignity of all life, then we care about the dignity of all life, and that includes the human life of children.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.

For our part we regard all human life as equally sacred, whether it be the life of an Empress or the life of a charwoman, and we have no desire to emulate our contemporaries in their attempt to magnify the horror of a crime because the victim belonged to the former rank of life rather than the latter.

Even the vilest criminal remains a human being possessed of common human dignity.

With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too.

An embryo is human and deserves human respect.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.

Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity is a basic condition for peace.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable than another. That's is not up to human beings.