The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation... this is the difficult task which confronts our age.