Sentient Quotes

We're trying to get harsher penalties for offenders who are charged with cruelty to animals. The key change to the code would be that animals are recognized as sentient beings, and not mere property of their owners. - Liz Towell

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings. - Gary L. Francione

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

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat. - Grace Slick

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

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate? - Dalai Lama

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement. - Unknown

Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom. - 14th Dalai Lama