“It is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.”
"Save Me"
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)
Context: You struck me dumb, Like radium
Like Peter Pan, or Superman,
You have come... to save me.
Come on and save me...
Why don't you save me?
If you could save me,
From the ranks of the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone,
Except the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone,
Except the freaks,
Who could never love anyone.
Challenge to the Cold War (1985) Vol. 3, Ch. 14
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Source: The Power of Myth (book), p.183
Context: Moyers: Unlike heroes such as Prometheus or Jesus, we're not going on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.
Campbell: But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there's no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.
“No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.”
Terry Gifford, LLO, page 693
1900s, Stickeen (1909)
“We not only saved the world, er, saved the banks...”
" We not only saved the world... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7775515.stm", BBC News, 10 December 2008
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