The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. -Felix Adler

 

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.


Comments

There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first?




This quote is just one of 8 total Felix Adler quotes in our collection. Felix Adler is known for saying 'The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Felix Adler

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Felix Adler

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adler

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Felix Adler