Jack Cunningham Quotes

I value human life. I don't want to see human life taken away unnecessarily.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

Every life is precious.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

It takes lives to save lives.

… all experience tended to show that a man must die; and whether he died of a miserable old age in his own country, or prematurely of damp in the bottom of a foreign mine, was surely of little consequence, provided that by a change in his mode of life he benefited the British Empire.

If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

I firmly believe in the sanctity of life.

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.