Fellow Creatures Quotes
68 quotes by 54 authors
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you…
— Marcus Aurelius
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That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat…
— James F. Cooper
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this…
— William E. Gladstone
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Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have…
— A. Whitney Brown
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form…
— Benjamin Rush
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is…
— Thomas More
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Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down…
— David Rice
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
— W. S. Gilbert
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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a…
— John Stuart Mill
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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
— Joy Adamson
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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw…
— Basil W. Maturin
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Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves…
— Gerrard Winstanley
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Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.
— Hillel the Elder
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However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good…
— Oliver Heaviside
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