Quotes by Animal My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals. Albert Sabin suffering animal years Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it. Albert Sabin cancer animal giving The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys Albert Sabin prevention animal long 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 We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human. Albert Schweitzer voice animal sympathy When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Albert Schweitzer animal character men 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 compassion heart animal A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Albert Schweitzer animal life death The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another. Albert Schweitzer philosophical nature animal To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought. Albert Schweitzer philosophical animal thinking It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor. Albert Schweitzer suffering pet animal Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives. Albert Schweitzer cat animal life Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. Albert Schweitzer philosophical animal thinking By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer nature spiritual animal 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 hunting animal sports The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics. Albert Schweitzer animal men thinking No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent. Albert Schweitzer pain eye animal Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer clever animal fun 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. Albert Schweitzer philosophical strong animal 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. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' Albert Schweitzer animal men memories «1234567891011»