Clergyman's

If we should classify one by one all those who hate others and injure others, should we find them to be universal in love or partial? Of course we should say they are partial. Now, since partiality against one another is the cause of the major calamities in the empire, then partiality is wrong.
- Mozi

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. If there is a superior who encourages it, promoting it with rewards and commendations, threatening its reverse with punishments, 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

The image being inverted depends on there being an aperture at the cross-over and the image being distant. The explanation lies in the aperture.
The image : The light reaches the person shining like an arrow. The lowest that reaches the person is the highest and the highest that reaches the person is the lowest . The feet conceal the lowest light and therefore become the image at the top. The head conceals the highest light and therefore becomes the image at the bottom.
- Mozi

The image being inverted depends on there being an aperture at the cross-over and the image being distant. The explanation lies in the aperture.
The image : The light reaches the person shining like an arrow. The lowest that reaches the person is the highest and the highest that reaches the person is the lowest . The feet conceal the lowest light and therefore become the image at the top. The head conceals the highest light and therefore becomes the image at the bottom.
- Mozi

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.
- Mozi

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.
- Mozi

The murder of one person is called unrighteous and incurs one death penalty. Following this argument, the murder of ten persons will be ten times as unrighteous and there should be ten death penalties; the murder of a hundred persons will be a hundred times as unrighteous and there should be a hundred death penalties. All the gentlemen of the world know that they should condemn these things, calling them unrighteous. But when it comes to the great unrighteousness of attacking states, they do not know that they should condemn it. On the contrary, they applaud it, calling it righteous.
- Mozi

If one does not preserve the learned in a state he will be injuring the state; if one is not zealous 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. Few are those, who, neglecting the virtuous and slighting the learned, could still maintain the existence of their countries.
- Mozi