“It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.” Quote by African Spir
“To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.” WantHelpingValuesEvilResultsMoralityTrainingConstraintsCoercionUnnatural Author:African Spir
“Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.” MenTwoIdeasReasonNaturalActingCompassionInfluenceHabitFellowsBlameRemainsSelfishPunishmentMotiveEtcAssociationFellow ManRationsDishonourSelfish ReasonsActing Badly Author:African Spir
“The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.” WellsInterestCrimeDemandUnderstoodOffenseEquity Author:African Spir
“As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.” MenLongAbleHumanityDestinyErrorsAccomplishmentDelusion Author:African Spir
“The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.” WarHumanityDutySacredSupremeUrgentCainMalediction Author:African Spir
“The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"... We would not (On ne saurait", Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!” MenArtWarMoralImagineDevelopmentIntellectualRaisesMethodExtraordinaryKillingContraryBlindnessSlaughterIntellectual Development Author:African Spir
“It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.” LongCountrySpeakLanguageLibertyCitizensGoverning Author:African Spir
“It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.” NeedsFeelingsSpiritBoredomEmptinessOccupationDistractionMirages Author:African Spir
“There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.” WorldOne ThingValuable Author:African Spir
“It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.” IfsWayWantNeedsTryingValuesWishMoralGreatnessRisingWhat IfSuperiorityLeversTrue ValueRising Up Author:African Spir