Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Les hommes qui se sont occupés du bonheur des peuples ont rendu leurs proches bien malheureux.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
“Those who love their neighbor as themselves possess nothing more than their neighbor.”
Source: Social Justice, To the Rich (c. 368), p. 43
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“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 11: "Brotherhood"
Context: It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. There may even be a certain antagonism between love of humanity and love of neighbor; a low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men. About a hundred years ago a Russian landowner by the name of Petrashevsky recorded a remarkable conclusion: "Finding nothing worthy of my attachment either among women or among men, I have vowed myself to the service of mankind." He became a follower of Fourier, and installed a phalanstery on his estate. The end of the experiment was sad, but what one might perhaps have expected: the peasants — Petrashevsky's neighbors-burned the phalanstery.
Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.
“It is the neighbor who chooses the mayor and it is the mayor who wants the neighbors the mayor.”
Mariano Rajoy (1955) Spanish politician
2 December, 2015 <br class="br">As President, 2015 <br class="br">Source: Party meeting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y4eb0mAikU
“Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person—to say nothing of one's neighbor!—as God loves him.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 15
“Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
Henry David Thoreau book Civil Disobedience
Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)
“Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 54 : How I Believe In God
Context: I have no patience for churches that evangelize aggressively. I have no interest in being instructed in what I must do to be saved. I prefer vertical prayer, directed up toward heaven, rather than horizontal prayer, directed sideways toward me. I believe a worthy church must grow through attraction, not promotion. I am wary of zealotry; even as a child I was suspicious of those who, as I often heard, were “more Catholic than the pope.” If we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, we must regard their beliefs with the same respect our own deserve.
“A parish where life is precarious pays more poor-rates than its neighbors.”
Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) (1802–1871) Scottish publisher and writer
Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 12
“The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Source: The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives