Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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 limit itself to mankind.

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.

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

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

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Kindness to animals seems to me to be one of the most rudimentary lessons of all.

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don't look at his color, I don't look at his religion.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

I was raised to believe you are supposed to love everybody.

I don't think I necessarily try to help women; I just try to help people.

The thing, in general, about being a good person is just do the right thing as often as possible.

How we take care of our animals is a very good indicator of how we are doing as a society. It is symbolic of how, as human beings, we go about treating each other.

If we talk about 'Groundhog Day' as a humanistic text - we only have one life, and there's no punishment or reward afterwards - then the wisdom is, just be kind because that will make you happy and the people around you happy.

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.