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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous… — Karen Armstrong
A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings. — Ingvar Kamprad
Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven… — Robert Thurman
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that… — Hayao Miyazaki
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise. — Derrick Jensen
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be… — Derrick Jensen
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an… — Theodore Dalrymple
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work… — Victoria Moran
When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.' Mosiah 2:17. Focusing on serving our… — Ronald A. Rasband
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare… — Murray Leinster
These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the… — Danielle Trussoni
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity… — Willard Gaylin
Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order… — Unknown Author
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark,… — Yasmin Mogahed
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself. — Helena
Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding… — Joseph Jaworski
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing… — Joanne Stepaniak
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness. — R. J. Palacio
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings. — Ron Suskind
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it… — Ralph Harper
Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator. — Milton S. Eisenhower
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia,… — Zeena Schreck

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