“Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”
Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal
Source: Les Fleurs du Mal
Keynote Address for The Neo-Tech 2003 World Summit. Pax Neo-Tech. http://www.neo-tech.com/neotech/pax-b1/a3.php
“Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”
Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal
Source: Les Fleurs du Mal
“Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies?”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
This passage contains some phrases King later used in "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1967) which has a section below.
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says "love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies-or else? The chain reaction of evil-Hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 1; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
Alcools (1912)
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Life and Destiny (1913)
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
The Review and Herald (27 August 1889), p. 530.