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Nothing human was worth denying. Even if it was unspeakably ugly, we could learn from it, couldn't we? Or could we? I never questioned that at all. — Erica Jong

As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end. — Marjorie Spiegel

The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. — Daniel Keyes

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings. — Desmond Tutu

No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny. — Takayuki Yamaguchi

What are others worth that they have the nerve to sneer at any human being? — Graham Greene

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human. — Robert Greene

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man. — Edwin Markham

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. — Helen Suzman

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth — Martin Luther King Jr.

Guilt is really self- condemnation and self-invalidation of our worth and value as a human being. — David R. Hawkins

You destroyed five million dollars' worth of luxury cars."
"Yes, but none of them are wearing human heads as hood ornaments. — Ilona Andrews

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey

There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin. — Enzo Ferrari

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts. — Paul Johnson

Few see beyond the outward appearance
And recognize the true worth of a human soul.
When they do, miracles occur. — Thomas S. Monson

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. — John D. MacDonald

Nothing on this earth is worth
buying at the price of human blood. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity. — Ben Carson

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. — Milan Kundera

Motivation enhances human worth and potential. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine? — John Brunner

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens. — W. Somerset Maugham

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view. — Haile Gerima

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

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity. — Confucius

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. — Honore De Balzac

The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken. — Shakieb Orgunwall

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression. — E.W. Howe

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. — Robert C. Maynard

There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for. — Rob Stewart

Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear. — Ann Leckie

Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for? — Andrew Sean Greer

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine. — Freya Stark

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness. — Jesse Owens

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

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same. — Tao Lin

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. — Thomas Carlyle

Tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on. — Billie Letts

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them. — George Orwell

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it. — Sam Kean

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth. — Veronica Roth

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting.
There is, in fact, nothing.
And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. — Max Barry

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money ... — David Simon

One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth. — Seth Adam Smith

Every life has immense value. — Seth Adam Smith

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought. — Jacob Bronowski

I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough. — Mike Huckabee

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world. — Serge Lang

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans. — Liza M. Wiemer

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them. — George Bernard Shaw

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. — Homer

Did you ever wonder what a human life is worth? — Ruta Sepetys

The future of the human race outweighs all. Every death and every sacrifice are well worth the ultimate outcome. — James Dashner

Inside every human is a story worth sharing. What's your story? — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. — Martin H. Fischer

Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings. — Luis E. Navia

Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother. — Beth Moore

No ideology is worth a Human life. — Adriano Bulla

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind. — Woody Allen

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can't drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. — Andre Dubus III

Truth and effort may increase human worth
But they are not enough to make us whole;
Only love can complete us. — Ilchi Lee

A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I — Daniel Keyes

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings. — Mahatma Gandhi

William Faulkner said, "The only story worth telling is that of the human mind in conflict with itself". — Miles Skedsvold

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety. — Plato

People are priceless. A chance meeting with a loving human being was worth more than any amount of money in the world. I felt rich. — Victor Castelo

Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long? — Stacey Jay

All human efforts to communicate - even in the same language - are equally utopian, equally luminous with value, and equally worth the doing. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I think that film combines almost every element that makes human life worth living. — Penelope Mitchell

The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing. — Primo Levi

Human knowledge is one thing, human wellbeing another. There is no predetermined harmony between the two. The examined life may not be worth living. — John N. Gray

Stop reliant on human effort. Seek divine power. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth. — A.S. King

Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings. — Marie Forleo

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth. — Astra Taylor

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being. — Daniel Berrigan

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself ... a human being. — Pearl S. Buck

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State — Ian McEwan