Quote by Albert Schweitzer
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, tha

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself. – Albert Schweitzer

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

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Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. – Albert Schweitzer

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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words. – Albert Schweitzer

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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now… – Henry Miller

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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. – E. M. Cioran

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The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde

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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience. – Mahatma Gandhi

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