"Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for..." - Quote by Albert Schweitzer
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.
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“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.”
“No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.”
“Animal protection is education to the humanity.”
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“Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.”
“It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.”
“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.”