By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the… — 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
Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — 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
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for… — 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
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to… — 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
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am… — 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
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping… — 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
No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat… — 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
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“ 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 Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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 Image
For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
