Albert Schweitzer Quotes

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

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

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

You cannot reason with people who don't recognize the humanity in all of us.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

History is not hatred.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation.

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

The things that divide us in politics are infinitesimal compared with the dignity of our common humanity.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.