Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

Albert Schweitzer

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.