Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. A
  4. Albert Schweitzer
  5. Evil

Albert Schweitzer Quotes about Evil

All Albert Schweitzer Quotes Age Appreciation Atheism Attitude Business Character Compassion Conscience Darkness Death Desire Destiny Devil Earth Ethics Evil quotes Fate Feelings Friendship Giving God Gratitude Happiness Happy Healing Health Heart Helping Others Honor Horror Humanity Inspirational Integrity Jesus Joy Kindness Leadership Learning Life Love Lying Morality Motivational Nature Overcoming Pain Peace Personality Philanthropy Philosophy Public Service Reality Respect Responsibility Sacrifice Simplicity Skepticism Sleep Society Soul Spirituality Sports Strength Study Success Suffering Sympathy Thankful Thanksgiving Time Today Tragedy Truth Understanding Values Vegetarian Volunteer
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Albert Schweitzer
Evil
Source: acedmagazine.com

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Evil, Giving

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Albert Schweitzer
Inspirational Life, Integrity, Evil
Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

Albert Schweitzer
Father, Sleep, Evil
Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.7, Open Road Media

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer
Men, Thinking, Evil

You May Also Like: