Sebastian Junger Quotes

Saving a life overrides territories.

Saving lives is the top morality.

I was a witness to lots of death... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.

I hold that all war is morally wrong and its prosecution a crime. I hold life as sacred and cannot bring myself to join in the slaughter of my fellow men.

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

Die if you must, but never kill.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.

In many respects Angie saved Zahara's life and there are so many more children whose lives she could save and she talks about that constantly.

I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.