Famous quotes containing the words human life, innocent, human and/or life:
“The poet begins where the man ends. The man’s lot is to live his human life, the poet’s to invent what is nonexistent.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
—William Blackstone (1723–1780)
“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“There are three times in a man’s life when he has the right to yell at the moon—when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.”
—Borden Chase [Frank Fowler] (1900–1971)