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Creatures Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of…
- Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the…
- By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
- 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…
- It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
- There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there…
- 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…
- Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not…
- For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are…
- The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root,…
More Creatures Quotes
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar