"We need a boundless ethics which will..." - Quote by Albert Schweitzer
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
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“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.”
“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.”
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“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”
“The best politics is right action.”
“If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.”
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“King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.”
“Dogs do not grasp the concept of house cleaning.”
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”