Albert Schweitzer Quotes

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

People must help one another. It is nature's law.

I've only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it's important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want.

We all need each other.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

All we have is us. Our only hope of survival is each other.

Neither the crushing powers of the centralized State nor the teachings of mutual hatred ... could weed out the feeling of human solidarity, deeply lodged in men's understanding and heart, because it has been nurtured by all our preceding evolution.

For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

Morality is very important. We have to be together.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.