Sentient Quotes

131 Sentient quotes by 99 unique authors

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes. — Gary L. Francione
All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property — Gary L. Francione
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient… — Gary L. Francione
If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other… — Gary L. Francione
To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no… — Gary L. Francione
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important… — Gary L. Francione
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love. — Voltaire
It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something… — Ellen Hopkins
Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we… — David Levithan
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. — Mahatma Gandhi
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die… — Philip K. Dick
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast… — Edith Wharton
If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I… — Yann Martel
For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a… — Henry Miller
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it. — James A. Baldwin
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense… — Sogyal Rinpoche
I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress -… — Unknown Author
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake.… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
When there is hallucination, there is the truth, by recognising it as hallucination. Where there is suffering, there is peace and bliss, by letting go… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept… — Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator… — Sugata Mitra
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium. — Nellie McKay
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind… — Jason Silva

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