Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be d… - Erich Fromm

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Among most Christians the Old Testament is little read in comparison to the New Testament. Furthermore, much of what is read is often distorted by prejudice. Frequently the Old Testament is believed to express exclusively the principles of justice and revenge, in contrast to the New Testament, which represents those of love and mercy; even the sentence, "Love your neighbor as yourself,” is thought by many to derive from the New, not the Old Testament. Or the Old Testament is believed to have been written exclusively in the spirit of narrow nationalism and to contain nothing of supranational universalism so characteristic of the New Testament.

The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.