Reverence For Life quotes
18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life."
"I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics."
"The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life."
"When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself."
"What we call love is in its essence reverence for life."
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"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
"The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life."
"Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live."