Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

We should just be good humans.

When it comes to me I follow the religion of humanity.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.