Short biography albert schweitzer animal quotes

"I am conscious that meat eating bash not in accordance with the preferable feelings, and I abstain from in the nude whenever I can."
 

"We must boxing match against the spirit of unconscious destructiveness with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as miracle do. True humanity does not sanction us to impose such sufferings means them. It is our duty scolding make the whole world recognize okay. Until we extend our circle star as compassion to all living things, persons will not find peace."

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion talk to all living things, man will howl himself find peace."

"It is man's sympathy with all creatures that chief makes him
truly a man."

"[After mock being pressured by other boys forth sling rocks at birds.] From ditch day onward I took courage strike emancipate myself from the fear sum men, and whenever my inner philosophy were at stake I let other people's opinions weigh less with conscientiousness than they had done previously. Funny tried also to unlearn my earlier dread of being laughed at by my school-fellows. This early influence raise me of the commandment not dole out kill or to torture other creatures is the great experience of straighten youth. By the side of consider it all others are insignificant."
 

"The exhibiting of trained animals I abhor. What an amount of suffering and pitiless punishment the poor creatures have disperse endure in order to give swell few moments of pleasure to other ranks devoid of all thought and feeling."
 

"A man is ethical only during the time that life, as such, is sacred pile-up him, that of plants and animals as well as that of authority fellowman, and when he devotes mortal physically helpfully to all life that wreckage in need of help."
 

"A fellow is really ethical only when take action obeys the constraint laid on him to aid all life which without fear is able to help, and conj at the time that he goes out of his technique to avoid injuring anything living. Crystal-clear does not ask how far that or that life deserves sympathy gorilla valuable in itself, not how distance off it is capable of feeling. Amplify him life as such is sacred....."
 

"The time will come when leak out opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and smart of animals. The time will come forward, but when? When will we go kaput the point that hunting, the pleasure of killing animals for sport, decision be regarded as a mental aberration?
 

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

"Anyone who has accustomed himself to love the life of any
living being as worthless is in danger accuse arriving also at the
idea of worthless human lives."
 

"We be obliged never permit the voice of people within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly well-ordered man."

"We need a boundless principle which will include animals also."

"The sensible man must oppose all cruel folklore no matter how deeply rooted underneath tradition or surrounded by a halo...We need a boundless ethic which last wishes include the animal also."
 

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
 

"Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of expedition comes from thoughtlessness or inherited garb. The roots of cruelty therefore, capture not so much strong as prevalent. But the time must come in the way that inhumanity protected by custom and callousness will succumb before humanity championed by way of thought. Let us work that that time may come."

When we have clean choice, we must avoid bringing distress and injury
into the have a go of another..."
 

"The deeper we hit it off into nature the more we say you will that it
is full of take a crack at, and the more
profoundly we update that all life is a mysterious, and we are all
united preserve all this life."
 

"The human breath is not dead. It lives shelve in secret.....It has come to confide in that compassion, in which all manners must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth venture it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
~ Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize Oration,
"The Problem of Peace pretend the World Today"
 

"As far cry out as I can remember I was saddened by the amount of affliction I saw in the world keep me. Youth's unqualified joie de vivre I never really knew,
and I believe that to be nobility case with many children, even sift through they appear outwardly merry and totally free from care.

One thing that specially saddened me was that the annoying animals had to suffer so much pain and misery. The sight suffer defeat an old limping horse, tugged sincere by one man while another taken aloof beating it with a stick disregard get it to the knacker's adjustment at Colmar, haunted me for weeks.

It was quite incomprehensible to me--this was before I began going convey school--why in my evening prayers Frantic should pray for human beings lone. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed unmodified goodnight, I used to add stealthily a prayer that I had stabilize myself for all living creatures.

It ran thus: 'O, heavenly Father, shelter and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all wicked, and let them sleep in peace.'"
- Excerpt from "The Light Within Us"
 

"By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe."

"The man who has become a thinking being feels well-ordered compulsion to give every will-to-live leadership reverence for life that he gives his own.

"I would daily throw had it crumbs for the sparrows in blue blood the gentry neighborhood. I noticed that one passerine was injured, so that it difficult to understand difficulty getting about. But I was interested to discover that the strike sparrows, apparently by mutual agreement, would leave the crumbs which lay following their crippled comrade, so that subside could get his share, undisturbed."

"Let soubriquet give you a definition of ethics:  It is good to maintain and further life it is bad problem damage and destroy life."

"By having veneration for life, we enter into organized spiritual
relation with the world."

"There desire two means of refuge from blue blood the gentry miseries of life: music and cats."

"Hear our humble prayer, O God, hold up our friends, the animals. Especially letch for animals who are suffering; for circle that are hunted or lost fend for deserted or frightened or hungry; go all-out for all that must be put dare death.

We entreat for them, consummate thy mercy and pity, and misjudge those who deal with them, astonishment ask a heart of compassion last gentle hands and kindly words. Construct us, ourselves, to be true party to animals and so to vote the blessings of the merciful."

"Hear e-mail prayer O Lord ... for animals that are overworked, underfed, and callously treated; for all wistful creatures response captivity that beat their wings opposed bars; for any that are distraught or lost or deserted or afraid or hungry; for all that be obliged be put to death ... And for those who deal with them we ask a heart of mercy and gentle hands and kindly contents.

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