Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.

Anonymous
About This Quote

This quote is attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment, but its first appearance was in a collection of letters written by the Swiss-German poet Heinrich Heine in 1828. Heine had experienced a dramatic conversion after reading St. Francis's Sermon on Love of Enemies .

St. Francis held that the only meaningful love is for people , not for abstractions like justice, mercy, or God. Heine's words bear the same message: "The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people."

Source: The Absolute At Large

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