A Quote by Shantideva

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.

Shantideva

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Shantideva
Born: 685

From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons.

Thorstein Veblen

Our attitude is very clear. In effect there is the conflict, ideological conflict which we all know. We have stated our position in the sense of unity among socialist states - unity as a first measure.

Che Guevara

The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot of a coral reef, the beauty of an albatross, the awesome power of a giant turtle, the grace of a dolphin. Now multiply that by the millions of creatures in the sea. Wow!

Carl Safina

I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.

Louise Hay

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

Faina Ranevskaya

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.

Konrad Lorenz

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

John Brunner

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.

Ajahn Chah

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

John Ruskin

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

Cassandra Clare

At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'

Dwight Yoakam

As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.

Muriel Barbery

There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.

Russell M. Nelson

We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.