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- In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We…
- Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not…
- A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring…
- We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
- A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and…
- Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all…
- Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some…
- One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it…
- Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the…
- The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice,…
- Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of…
- By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual…
- O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
- Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
- Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From…
- What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us…
- But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one…
- We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does…
- For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are…
- No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted…
- Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to…
- We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- 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…
- The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root,…
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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