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Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

I think you achieve a lot more through love than negativity.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.