![]() I believe that an individual’s thirst for forgiveness is impossible to slake, not due to some original sin traced to heaven or hell, but to the fact that we from our very beginnings are confronted by a merciless world upon which we can affect less change than we wish.īut here is the tragedy in our situation: while I am convinced of the existence of human virtue, I doubt the human capacity to halt the holocaust we all fear. Above all the other virtues, I hold the form of love called forgiveness. ![]() I believe in solidarity, compassion and love as humanity’s last white shirts of hope. He who lives is the life-long prisoner of humanity and contributes, willingly or unwillingly, to an increase or decrease of the human inventory of happiness and misfortune, greatness and humiliation, hope and despondence.Īnd so I dare to venture, the fate of humanity is at stake everywhere and at all times, and the responsibility of one life for another is immeasurable. There is no such thing as unshackled observation. Nobody can say that humanity is evil without he himself having been part of evil deeds. Nobody can claim that humanity is in the process of decay without having observed the same putrid symptoms in himself. So even as judge, he will always be found on the bench of the accused. Only death can separate him from his charges. ![]() In his relentless indictment of humanity at large, the individual himself is a part. To speak of humanity is to speak of oneself.
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