Biology Quote by Annie Besant

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

— Mitch Albom

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising…

— Maria Montessori

“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely intertwined that…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.”

— Mahavira

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the…

— Henry Beston

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of…

— Seneca the Younger

Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that…

— Revilo P. Oliver

To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of enlightenment.”

— Dōgen

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Although all sentient beings are endowed with this Enlightened Consciousness, they are not aware of its existence, excepting men who can discover it by…

— Kaiten Nukariya