Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

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.

Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

I think everyone deserves dignity.

I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lobster, the quality of life that it lives - even if it's not as long - as the quality of your life.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Everything has a right to live.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

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.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.