Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
“ Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
