8 Albert Schweitzer Quotes on Community

Albert Schweitzer quotes on community

23. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

51. We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

66. The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

92. It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need 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.

113. There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

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114. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

119. We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

120. Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.