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The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color-blind.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

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.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote