“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
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Pablo Neruda 136
Chilean poet 1904–1973Related quotes
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Context: We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.
All this, however, is only true so long as we are concerned solely with attitudes towards other human beings. You might regard the soil as your enemy because it yields reluctantly a niggardly subsistence. You might regard Mother Nature in general as your enemy, and envisage human life as a struggle to get the better of Mother Nature. If men viewed life in this way, cooperation of the whole human race would become easy. And men could easily be brought to view life in this way if schools, newspapers, and politicians devoted themselves to this end. But schools are out to teach patriotism; newspapers are out to stir up excitement; and politicians are out to get re-elected. None of the three, therefore, can do anything towards saving the human race from reciprocal suicide.
Statement of Purpose: Gay Liberation Front (Dec. 1969)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 127.
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 117
