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- Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay…
- The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.…
- Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature…
- Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this…
- Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm,…
- Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the…
- Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to…
- The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical…
- By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
- All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
- The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
- The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life…
- We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly…
- Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living…
- It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
- We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer…
- In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking…
- The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which…
- We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my…
- To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide