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- The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics…
- To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than…
- If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
- It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience…
- A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
- Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
- The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all…
- Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each…
- All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
- We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more…
- Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
- We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new…
- ...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of…
- Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
- Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
- I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs…
- The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never…
- It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
- All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
- Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power…
- A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them,…
- It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm…
- I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all…
- Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have…
- If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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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
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle