Prudentius Quotes

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

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.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

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.

Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.

Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.

Every human life is worth so much.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

All of us, we deserve to survive.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice.

No one can live under degradation.

For our part we regard all human life as equally sacred, whether it be the life of an Empress or the life of a charwoman, and we have no desire to emulate our contemporaries in their attempt to magnify the horror of a crime because the victim belonged to the former rank of life rather than the latter.

There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I treat everyone with the same respect they treat me with. Just because I earn more money doesn't make me more special than them or give me the right to talk to them in a certain manner.

Every life - regardless of background or gender - has equal value.