Sentient Quotes

131 Sentient quotes by 99 unique authors

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt… — Peter F. Hamilton
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of… — Dainin Katagiri
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward… — Dogen
Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering… — Amartya Sen
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments… — Peter Cheeke
The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological… — Timothy Morton
As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy… — Deepak Chopra
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most… — W.N.P. Barbellion
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being. — Frances Wright
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind… — Hakim Bey
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free… — Unknown Author
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation… — Gary L. Francione
Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. Â That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all… — Gary L. Francione
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings… — Gary L. Francione
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion… — Gary L. Francione
We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if… — Gary L. Francione
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself,… — Sri Aurobindo
Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their… — Dalai Lama
Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient… — Je Tsongkhapa
I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one… — Paul Stamets
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
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
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one,… — Philip Wollen

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