Mo-tse

Mo-tse (c. 470 — 391 BC) was a great Chinese philosopher. His doctrine of undifferentiated love (jianai) became the basis of a socioreligious movement known as Mohism that ultimately challenged Confucianism, though in the beginning he himself was a follower of Confucianism. He parted his way after he found Confucianism laid too much emphasis on a burdensome code of rituals and too little on religious teaching.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Universal love ... means that one makes no distinction between the state of others and one's own; none between the houses of others and one's own; none between the other person and oneself.
• A people only become unmanageable when one tries to lead them with a violent love. .. But if one approaches them with trust and takes them by the hand, if one lures them forward with riches and drives them from behind with just punishment ... There Will not be a single one who will not adapt himself to the ruler.
• The origin is the lack of mutual love. ... All The disorders of the world have this cause and this alone.

Sophocles