Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing,… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on… — Ana Paula Maia Copy Share Image
Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The baby has become sentient. When we walk, she screams across the street at other babies, baby expletives, we think. Something along… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead.… — Ana Paula Maia Copy Share Image
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Although all sentient beings are endowed with this Enlightened Consciousness, they are not aware of its existence, excepting men who can discover… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
