Preservation of Life Quotes

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Who so ever kills a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he has killed all mankind, and who so ever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

… human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

President Shimon Peres has embodied a commitment to the mutual values shared by the United States and Israel - values that include the preservation of life, faith, family and freedom.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Future generations will look back at the beginning of the 21st century and marvel that intelligent people actually tried to stop biomedical progress just to protect their limited vision of human nature.

Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

People who died could not come back to life, so guaranteeing the right to life should not be a thing of the future, but should be advancing right now.

I don’t think that a society that sanctifies death can prevail.

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

Protection does not imply the destruction of the protected

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 save the world by being alive ourselves.

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

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.

Humanity has to start noticing that we are One. We are connected with the net of beings who are the life of this planet - and before we take them all down, we ought to see what we can do to preserve this unique and extraordinary family. That's what I think the wounded healer would do. We're all wounded in one way or another. The question is, can we heal?

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

Die if you must, but never kill.

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

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

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