Fellow Creatures Quotes
68 quotes by 54 authors
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner…
— Norman Douglas
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
— Samuel Richardson
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
— Sydney Smith
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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
— Charlotte Bronte
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If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever…
— William Wilberforce
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What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means…
— Albert Einstein
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Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from…
— Alexandre Dumas
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I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a…
— Annie Dillard
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Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with…
— Jane Austen
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How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds…
— M. Scott Peck
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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I…
— Thomas Paine
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And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is…
— Sophie Scholl
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Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around…
— Loren Eiseley
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We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect…
— Cesar Chavez
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...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all…
— Alexander Pushkin
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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
— Albert Einstein
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He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
— Simone Weil
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The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.
— Hudson Taylor
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