Animal Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

— Albert Schweitzer

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

— Albert Schweitzer

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

— Albert Schweitzer

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

— Albert Schweitzer

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

— Albert Schweitzer

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a…

— Albert Schweitzer

My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am…

— Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at…

— Albert Schweitzer

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

— Albert Schweitzer

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all…

— Albert Schweitzer

My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat…

— Albert Schweitzer

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time…

— Albert Schweitzer

We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to…

— Albert Schweitzer

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.…

— Albert Schweitzer

The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the…

— Albert Schweitzer

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having…

— Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need…

— Albert Schweitzer

...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of…

— Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness…

— Albert Schweitzer

The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act…

— Albert Schweitzer

What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious…

— Albert Schweitzer

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I…

— Albert Schweitzer

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

— Albert Schweitzer

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the…

— Albert Schweitzer

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

— Albert Schweitzer

I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping…

— Albert Schweitzer

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we…

— Albert Schweitzer