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
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
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in… — 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
You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living… — 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