Lloyd Alexander Quotes

If you throw the baby away, that's garbage. But no, the heart's precious. You could get something, you could save a life. Well, you just threw away a baby but the heart's valuable. That's the horror and the terror and the hypocrisy that nobody can understand. We base communities on the idea of protecting children based on the sacrifice of adults. Adults work and die so that their next generation would grow and prosper.

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

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

I want to increase awareness for the importance of life.

I believe in the value of life. I have fought for that value. I am the only candidate to carry a right to life bill, protecting unborn victims and ensuring that all life should be protected.

I firmly believe in the sanctity of life.

Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of "doubt" at all regarding his guilt or innocence.

What I believe is that we should defend life.

Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)

This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for the greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

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.

All human life is precious.

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

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

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

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.