478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Today we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth are our neighbors

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.