M. Scott Peck Quotes

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

And every human being is precious.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

All lives have an equal value.

It will do all of us good if every child begins to learn that they’re endowed by the Creator and, by the way, so is the person next to them … So if you’re a rapist, the person you’re raping is endowed by God.

All human life is precious.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

We have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of value and their lives should be respected and that we should respect them.

We believe that all men and women are created in the image of God. We believe that we are all equally created. So the fact of the matter is that we should assume by default that we reject the support of those who do not support the theory, the notion, the fact, that all men are created equally.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far worse, that in our innermost soul we think cheaply of ourselves.

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station

How precious are the souls of men!