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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. — Daniel H. Wilson

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two. — Takuan Soho

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being. — Frances Wright

How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? — John Green

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. — Mahatma Gandhi

In Buddhism, since the definition of "living" refers to sentient beings, consciousness is the primary characteristic of "life. — Dalai Lama XIV

So long as space remains
So long as sentient beings'
Suffering remains
I will remain
In order to help,
In order to serve. — Dalai Lama

As long as the sky exists And as long as there are sentient beings, May I remain to help Relieve them of all their pain. — Dalai Lama XIV

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. — Max Heindel

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. — Nicolas Cage

Veganism is about nonviolence:
nonviolence to other sentient beings;
nonviolence to yourself;
nonviolence to the earth. — Gary L. Francione

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue. — Gautama Buddha

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. — Sri Aurobindo

It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient. — Greg Egan

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets. — Alastair Reynolds

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit. — Shaun McNiff

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. — Vernor Vinge

I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them. — William McNamara

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes. — Gary L. Francione

When I wash my feet May all sentient beings Attain the power of supernatural feet With no hindrance to their practice. Of — Ruth Ozeki

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it. — James A. Baldwin

If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty. — Guo Jun

If the room to which my bed was removed were a sentient thing that could give evidence, I might appeal to it at this day - who sleeps there now, — Charles Dickens

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion. — Adam Pascal

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. — Mahavira

May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering. — Gautama Buddha

May I be mindful both making and keeping commitments that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering, for all sentient beings. — Gay Hendricks

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love. — Voltaire

He probably thinks pixies are a lesser species. Half-sentient, like gnomes and Internet trolls. — Rainbow Rowell

The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead. — Dalai Lama

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value. — Gary L. Francione

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. — Optimus Prime

I could be the only sentient being in the universe. If I'm even that much. Because I don't know if there is such a thing as a reliable narrator. — Peter Watts

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish. — Michael Shermer

I and the Great Earth and all sentient beings simultaneously attain enlightenment. — Stephan Schuhmacher

He had shining dark eyes and an oboe voice and mink-soft hair and could seem, even to Gary, more sentient animal than little boy. — Jonathan Franzen

Spiritual maturity is a natural part of sentient evolution — Jonathan R. Banks

For as long as space remains,
For as long as sentient beings remain,
Until then may I too remain
To dispel the miseries of the world. — Acharya Shantideva

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. — Kim Hee-jin

The tunneling entrance curves before it opens into this space and there is absolute, waiting, coiled, and sentient blackness. — Sofia Samatar

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. — Mahavira

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering. — Seneca The Younger

My brain needs to be a sentient being that way it can say, "Nadiyah. NADIYAH!! I know where you're going with this and you need to stop! — Nadiyah Abdul-Khaliq

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. — Douglas Kennedy

For the moment I can think of nothing - except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world. — Henry Miller

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life. — Gene Baur

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around. — Joss Whedon

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming. — Stephen Baxter

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. — Anne Rice

As long as space endures, as long as sentient beings remain, until then, may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world. — Dalai Lama XIV

sentient beings; that she had the karma to unite method and wisdom and benefit beings with him. — Thekchok Dorje

Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture. — Coleman Barks

The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice. — Bryant McGill

Isn't that weird?" I said. "All the different types of sentient species in the universe, and we're all different, but we all drink coffee. — John Scalzi

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine. — Marty Rubin

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. — Michael Morpurgo

Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation. — Reb Anderson

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. — Pema Chodron

We and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence ... — Sogyal Rinpoche

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? — Anne Rice

All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property — Gary L. Francione

If you can, serve other people, other sentient beings. If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy. — Dalai Lama XIV

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett

Puberty," it has been said, "is everyone's first experience of a sentient madness. — Stacy Schiff

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them. — Jonathan Balcombe

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing. — Paul Watson

Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed. — Peter F. Hamilton

All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them. — Dalai Lama

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama