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

Other quotes by Albert Schweitzer

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

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Faith
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Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. – Albert Schweitzer

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Reverence
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. – Octave Mirbeau

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Torture

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. – Jacob Bronowski

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Torture

The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Torture

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. – Bertrand Russell

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Torture

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There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Future

Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. – Roberto Assagioli

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Forgiveness

The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and devil-worshipers, and demanded of us that we abjure our false gods before bowing the knee at their sacred altar. – Charles Eastman

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Evangelism