The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Interpretation
The well-being of humanity depends on collective responsibility and care for one another.
This quote emphasizes the importance of shared responsibility in addressing the challenges faced by humanity. It suggests that individual concerns must be transcended for the greater good, advocating for a sense of community and mutual care as essential elements for salvation and progress.
In practice
In a community meeting discussing social initiatives.
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.
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