Best Sentient Beings Quotes
56 Sentient Beings quotes by 38 unique authors
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The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not…
— Grace Slick
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My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice,…
— Paul Hawken
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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.
— Dalai Lama
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The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this,…
— Frederick Lenz
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There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and…
— Gary L. Francione
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those…
— Dogen
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Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.
— Frederick Lenz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
— Gary L. Francione
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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
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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
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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
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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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
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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
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