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Ethics Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.…
- 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…
- Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to…
- 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 from…
- We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
- A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
- 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…
- Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
- 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 thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics…
- ...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…
- Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power…
- In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a…
- Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
- 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…
- 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…
- The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
More Ethics Quotes
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
- Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. — Philip James Bailey
- Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams