“To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.” Quote by African Spir
“Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.” MenMeanSelfInterestWorshipEternityWorthyPetty Author:African Spir
“It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.” MayJusticeLibertyRuins Author: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