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  • Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

    Life   Death   Respect  
    Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”
  • So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we have experienced God, doing our best to dispel our human delusions. Let me try to do just that. I experience God as the source of life calling me to live fully and thus to respect life in every form as embodying the holy.

  • Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

  • Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

    Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)
  • Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

    "Civilization and Ethics".
  • respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

  • We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.

  • Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

    Drawing   People   Trying  
    John Berger (2007). “Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths”, p.9, Vintage
  • Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

    Life   Respect   Nature  
  • What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.

    Hate   Hands   People  
  • Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

    Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.77, Loyola Press
  • The right to life is the first among human rights.

    "10 must-read quotations from Pope Francis: portrait of a forceful thinker". www.lifesitenews.com. March 15, 2013.
  • A person's a person, no matter how small.

    Dr. Seuss (1998). “Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor”, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby
  • Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

    Life   Peace   Honesty  
    "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,
  • Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

    Money   Fire   Excellent  
    "Money: How To Get It, How To Keep It".
  • He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

    Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor
  • I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

    Prayer   May   Helping  
    Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 22, 2014.
  • All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

    Block   Thinking   Self  
  • Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You.

  • My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

    Nature   Animal   Life Is  
    "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, 1923.
  • Respect yourself and others will respect you.

  • ...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER?

    Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

    "Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer (1923), translated by C. T. Campion, 1949.
  • I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

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