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Animal Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Animal protection is education to the humanity.
- Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
- By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
- Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.…
- What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be…
- We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
- To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a…
- When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately…
- We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly…
- The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which…
- The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but…
- No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
- The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics…
- To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than…
- We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy…
- It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my…
- My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for…
- My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others…
- The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all…
- ...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of…
- Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
- Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
- A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and…
- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice,…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough