Albert Schweitzer Quotes

… we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.

No man is so great as mankind.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

The history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

Civilization develops man, and if he is, according to his whole character and destiny, made for development, civilization is his truly natural state …

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Whoever saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind

The fundamental purpose of … productivity must not be the mere multiplication of products. It must not be profit or domination. Rather, it must be the service of the human person

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind should we serve?

I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind.

Our cause is the cause of all mankind.

Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

We all have to get better as human beings and that's something you can't really get away from.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

The religion of humanity is love.