Mo-tse

Mo-tse (c. 470 BC — 391 BC), also known as Mozi, or Mo Di, or Latinised name Micius, 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.
• If one does not preserve the learned in a state he will be injuring the state; if one is not zealous (to recommend) the virtuous upon seeing one, he will be neglecting the ruler. Enthusiasm is to be shown only to the virtuous, and plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned.
• When nobody in the world loves any other, naturally the strong will overpower the weak, the many will oppress the few, the wealthy will mock the poor, the honoured will disdain the humble, the cunning will deceive the simple. Therefore all the calamities, strifes, complaints, and hatred in the world have arisen out of want of mutual love. Therefore the benevolent disapproved of this want.
• 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.

Sophocles