Sentient Quotes

131 Sentient quotes by 99 unique authors

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. — Richard Eder
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the… — Gary L. Francione
I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect. — Jane Goodall
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. — Michael Morpurgo
I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the… — Susan Orlean
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means… — Patrick Rothfuss
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish. — Michael Shermer
Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should… — Aldous Huxley
What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will… — Tom Wolfe
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the… — Cesar Chavez
Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy,… — D. A. Carson
I wanted to curl up into a fetal position and start sucking my thumb, let my tears and dripping saliva pool under me. Sorry. I… — David Wong
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it… — Albert Einstein
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we may succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and… — Dalai Lama
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees,… — Orson Scott Card
We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion,… — Dalai Lama
I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car." Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?" "No. But I… — Ilona Andrews
When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity… — Shunryu Suzuki
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent… — Aldous Huxley
At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one… — Rob Thurman
I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual… — Anne Rice
Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures… — Amish Tripathi
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets. — Alastair Reynolds
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened… — Chogyam Trungpa

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