QUOTES
"In
the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit
of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited
possibilities. Only when this really happens-- when the spirit of peace awakens
and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing."
"the
only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found
how to serve." -- Albert Schweitzer
"A
man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at
night and do it again the next day." -- Albert Schweitzer.
"Humanitarianism
consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose." -- Albert Schweitzer
What
really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity.
The horror of this realization should shake us out of our lethargy so that we
can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming era in which war will have
no place. This hope and this will can have but one aim: to attain, though a change
in spirit, that superior reason which will dissuade us from misusing the power
at our disposal.
Only
when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the people will the institutions
set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
Because
I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence
in the future of mankind.
"It
is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to
live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all
very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every person has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to
realize his own true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if
it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something
for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don't
live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."
You
must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something
for which you get not pay but the privilege of doing it.
"Until
mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all living things,
he will never, himself, know peace."
"Man
has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the
earth."
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.
From
naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
