The Monitor's View: Quote

I had learnt to fear the Pharisee more than the sinner, judgment and justice almost more than human error. I know judgment and justice had brought us far, but that far was not far enough. Only the exercise of the law of forgiveness, the declaration for ever of an unconditional amnesty for all in the warring spirit of men, could carry us on beyond. This alone could be the beginning of real change in life and it could only be by example of patiently living out the change in ourselves that we could hope to change for the better the societies to which we belong. It had become axiomatic for me that we could take nobody and no people further than we had taken ourselves.