25 result(s) for Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism Quotes.
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility."
"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to clear him a free passage. On the contrary, he must be prepared for them to block his way."
"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."
"The awareness of truthfulness, and the knowledge that nothing else matters, is the door that opens into peace."
"Ethics is the name we give to our concern for our own behavior. We feel ourselves responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we are."
"The destiny of man is not to endure, but to know."
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"We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human."
"Man can no longer live for himself alone. He realizes that all life is valuable, and that he is in its debt. He makes it his purpose to improve life whenever, wherever, and however he can."
"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth."
"The only way out of our present distress is to concern ourselves with life, to stress the sacredness of every individual human being; and that only by raising ourselves to the level of reverence for life can we solve our material and political problems."
"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."
"Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd."
"The greatest discovery of all time is that by controlling our thinking, we can change our lives."
"It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, a good husband, a good citizen." That's all very good. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth."
"We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace."
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
"At any given moment, a person's greatest need is simply the opportunity to discover the best that is in him."
"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."
"I have given my life for something that I hope will be of use to many people."
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right."
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"I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live."
"The first step in evolution is for ethics to awaken in us."
"Think for yourself and decide what is right and what is wrong."
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
