I Don't Want You To Be Young

I Don't Want You To Be Young And Beautiful. I Only Want One Thing. I Want You To Be Kind-hearted - And Not Just Towards Cats And Dogs.

There Are People Whose Souls Have Just Withered, People Who Are Willing To Go Along With Anything Evil - Anything So As Not To Be Suspected Of Disagreeing With Whoever Is In Power.

Human Groupings Have One Main Purpose: To Assert Everyone’s Right To Be Different, To Be Special, To Think, Feel And Live In His Or Her Own Way. People Join Together In Order To Win Or Defend This Right. But This Is Where A Terrible, Fateful Error Is Born: The Belief That These Groupings In The Name Of A Race, A God, A Party Or A State Are The Very Purpose Of Life And Not Simply A Means To An End. No! The Only True And Lasting Meaning Of The Struggle For Life Lies In The Individual, In His Modest Peculiarities And In His Right To These Peculiarities.

I Don't Believe In Your "good". I Believe In Human Kindness.

Chekhov Said: Let's Put God - And All These Grand Progressive Ideas - To One Side. Let's Begin With Man; Let's Be Kind And Attentive To The Individual Man - Whether He's A Bishop, A Peasant, An Industrial Magnate, A Convict In The Sakhalin Islands, Or A Waiter In A Restaurant. Let's Begin With Respect, Compassion, And Love For The Individual - Or We'll Never Get Anywhere.