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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

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.

Albert Schweitzer
Fighting, Compassion, Animal

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

Albert Schweitzer
Heart, Animal, Compassion

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Albert Schweitzer
Compassion, Foundation, Reverence For Life

Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

Albert Schweitzer
Karma, Kindness, Compassion
Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Thinking, Compassion

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.

Albert Schweitzer
Freedom, Kindness, Compassion
Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Compassion, Profound
"Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

Albert Schweitzer
Compassion, Doe, Finding Peace

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Albert Schweitzer
Heart, Men, Compassion

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

Albert Schweitzer
Compassion, People, Spirit
Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer
Animal, Compassion, Circles

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