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| Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim. | | Uncategorized | |
| Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow human beings. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. | | Power | |
| To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for t | | Uncategorized | |
| To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic | | Optimism; Pessimism | |
| To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation... this is the difficult task which confronts our age. | | Uncategorized | |
| Today we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth are our neighbors | | Living | |
| Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. | | Uncategorized | |
| Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. | | Uncategorized | |
| Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. | | Uncategorized | |
| Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization. | | Civilization | |
| 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.' | | Childhood; Cruelty; Habit; Instinct; Memory; Men; Youth | |
| We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness | | Uncategorized | |
| We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. | | Uncategorized | |
| We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. | | Uncategorized | |
| Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. | | Uncategorized | |
| Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. | | Misery; Pain | |
| Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments. | | Uncategorized | |
