#human lives

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? ↗

— William Greider

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If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#depended #human #human lives #judged #lives

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. ↗

— George Orwell

#destruction #essential #human #human lives #labor

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#absolutely #against #billion #brought #budget

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can. ↗

— Tara Reid

#awesome #cure #find #friends #hiv

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#air pollution #effects #fact #health #human

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#circumstances #constitute #decree #fate #fortuitous

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#human #human lives #irreversible #lives #man lives