#revere

The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. It has good reasons for this omission. For what are we doing, when we establish hard and fast gradations in value between living organisms, but judging them in relation to ourselves, by whether they seem to stand closer to us or farther from us. This is a wholly subjective standard. How can we know what importance other living organisms have in themselves and in terms of the universe? ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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#life

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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#impiety #irreverence #toward #your

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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#contempt #defeats #end #esteem #into