Majoring on the Minors

But often enough, as we have seen, men have sought to demonstrate their love for God by loving nothing at all and their love for humanity by loving nobody whatsoever. These are the men to be feared above all others- the Robespierres who 'love humanity', the Inquisitors who 'love God'. The loves which determine the quality of a society are not such pseudo-loves as these but what, relatively speaking, might be called the 'little loves'- the love of one's work, of one's friends, of works of art, of scientific and technological achievements, of justice, of political freedom, of one's community, one's wife, one's children.

--from The Perfectibility of Man by John Passmore, p.324