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"Say not; I have found the truth, but rather; I have found a truth."
~ Gibran, the "Prophet"
"Humans have destroyed more than 30 per cent of the natural world since 1970 with serious depletion of the forest, freshwater and marine systems on which life depends."
~ Guardian, 10/2/98
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death".
~ George Carlin
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
~ Helen Keller
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
~ Susan B. Anthony
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
~ Anne Lamott, author
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion".
~ Thomas Paine
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
~ Alice Walker
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself."
~ J.A. Froude (1818 - 1894) British Historian - Oceana, 1886
"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them,
but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it...If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
~Saint Francis of Assisi
"Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving
conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society
is to run."
~ Margaret Mead US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)
"Religion is finely designed to divide and seperate; spirituality brings unity and forgiveness and compassion."
~ Carlos Santana 'Earth Star' magazine, August/September 2005
"The Science of Mind is the study of Life and the nature of the laws of thought; the conception that we live in a spiritual Universe; that God is in, through, around and for us."
~ Dr. Ernest Holmes United Church of Religious Science
"The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs."
~ Cicero
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 16th president of United States of America
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
~ Brendan Gill a American Critic, Author and Journalist, 1914-1997
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life
of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind."
~ Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
~ George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
~ Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
"Man is what he believes."
~ Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."
~ Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
"It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?"
~ Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe
that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in lies. Love is your safety.
Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love,
and you are home. Identify with love, and you find your Self."
- Course in Miracles
"If you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of
peace must be considered."
- 1945 preamble to the 'Constitution of UNESCO' - (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
