Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
Let your life be your argument.
It is a man’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
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.
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
You don’t live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.