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I feel people will tend toward universal love and mutual aid like fire tending upward and water downwards — it will be unpreventable in the world.

— Mozi

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Universal love is really the way of the sage-kings. It is what gives peace to the rulers and sustenance to the people.

The wise man who has charge of governing the empire should know the cause of disorder before he can put it in order. Unless he knows its cause, he cannot regulate it.

Whoever criticizes others must have something to replace them. Criticism without suggestion is like trying to stop flood with flood and put out fire with fire. It will surely be without worth.

Now, as to universal love and mutual aid, they are beneficial and easy beyond a doubt. It seems to me that the only trouble is that there is no superior who encourages it.

The purpose of the magnanimous is to be found in procuring benefits for the world and eliminating its calamities.

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