Quotes

It is not human life only, not human life as such, that ought to be sacred to us, but human feelings. The human capacity of suffering is what we should cause to be respected, not the mere capacity of existing.

John Stuart Mill, The collected works of John Stuart Mill, Indianapolis, Ind, 1988, p. 270

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

Niels Bohr, quoted in Niels Blaedel, Harmony and Unity: The Life of Niels Bohr, Madison, 1988, p. 27