“I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.” IfsWantFeelsHumansLooksEndsMomentsStoriesBigsHuman BeingsInterestingPositionCivilizationLuckyStandingWitnessVery Interesting Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.” HumansDoeDifferentChurchViewsMoralPositionTraditionCatholicHuman LifeCatholic ChurchMandatesEmbryosPersonhoodDevelopmentalJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.” HumansEyeChristianSufferingChristAnimalSpecialPositionCreaturesResourcesCrossesWeakSightAbsolutesPropertyInnocentVulnerableFixedVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsCommodityPowerlessUtilityIdentificationCrucifixionVegan HealthAwfulness Author:Andrew Linzey
“If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.” IfsThinkingYearsHumansWellsSaidSpiritualPoliticalSoundHuman BeingsClearPositionYears AgoCalmConvincedAriseRealisticCompassionatePreciseLamaDalai Author:Pico Iyer