Complex Quote by Amor Towles

To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern…

— Dalai Lama

We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both the one…

— Michael Light

“Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make sense of…

— Steven J. Dick

“Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.”

— Barbara Lazear Ascher

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others,…

— David Hume

“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding that humans…

— Edward Abbey

“Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any cost to other species, we need only worry…

— Timothy Walker

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

— Margaret Halsey

This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we…

— Robert Jensen

True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of…

— Russell Kirk

“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is…

— Simone de Beauvoir