Quotes on Respect Life

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.