Other Creatures Quotes
65 quotes by 55 authors
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth,…
— Joseph Addison
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We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.
— Dalai Lama
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.
— Martin Luther
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The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems…
— Deepak Chopra
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We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
— Wendell Berry
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
— Joseph Addison
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You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only…
— George N. Atiyeh
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Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.
— Mamphela Ramphele
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I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so,…
— David Sztybel
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I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover…
— Angela Davis
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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty…
— Wendell Berry
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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
— Gary Snyder
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Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
— Plutarch
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I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit…
— Paul Watson
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Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes…
— Kirkpatrick Sale
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We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely…
— Pope Francis
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The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing…
— Friedrich Engels
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