Respect Life Quotes

• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Block, Thinking, Self

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• 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.

  Sandra Ingerman

  Honor And Respect, Return, Steps

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Life, Respect, Nature

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Death, Respect

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• 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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  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,

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• The right to life is the first among human rights.

  Pope Francis

  Rights, Pro Life, Abortion

  "10 must-read quotations from Pope Francis: portrait of a forceful thinker". www.lifesitenews.com. March 15, 2013.

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• respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

  Rajneesh

  Holy, Divine

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Doe, Deserve

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

  Rajneesh

  Life And Love, Love Life, Blessing

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• 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

  Inspiring, Christian, Wise

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.77, Loyola Press

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• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Animal, Life Is

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, 1923.

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• A person's a person, no matter how small.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  Dr. Seuss (1998). “Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Respect, Responsibility, Vegetarianism

  "Civilization and Ethics".

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

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• 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.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Trying, Calling

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• I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, May, Helping

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 22, 2014.

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• I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

  Jim Carrey

  Respect, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Respect, Real, Responsibility

  "Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer (1923), translated by C. T. Campion, 1949.

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• 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.

  John Berger

  Drawing, People, Trying

  John Berger (2007). “Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths”, p.9, Vintage

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• Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

  P. T. Barnum

  Money, Fire, Excellent

  "Money: How To Get It, How To Keep It".

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• He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Respect, Suicidal

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• 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

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

  Bob McDonnell

  Thinking, Culture, Embrace

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• ...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

  Emotional, Letters, Invasion

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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