Buddhists Quotes
Quotes touching on Buddhists, tradition, and human rights.
These quotes look at Buddhists from several angles, including a comparison suggesting Western Buddhists take the practice more seriously in some ways than Tibetans do. Another envies how Buddhists and Hindus keep a sense of continuity with the past through ancestor worship.
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but 'woke' activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.
Basic Rights Quotes
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for...
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A more pointed quote raises concern over how China treats Buddhists in Tibet, arguing that basic rights are denied while attention goes elsewhere. Read more on basic rights as a recurring theme.
