“Has ‘crunk’ achieved true word status yet? Are we there yet, as a race of sentient beings?” — Hannah Johnson Copy Share Image
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit… — Je Tsongkhapa Copy Share Image
Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will… — Suresh Jindal Copy Share Image
If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, there are machines that can detect and record brain signals which are proof of consciousness of a living being. These signals… — Readtrepreneur Publishing Copy Share Image
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you… — Dogen Copy Share Image
We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no… — Joanne Stepaniak Copy Share Image
As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve...… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation. — Reb Anderson Copy Share Image
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept,… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“There is no place which is not imbued with the Way. It pervades all things and all sentient beings.” — Ta-Mo Copy Share Image