African Spir on Human Nature
Browse 9 quotations attributed to African Spir, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to African Spir, entry #44306: "The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war."
Attributed to African Spir, entry #97660: "To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them in a new spirit."
9 Quotes by African Spir on Human Nature
"The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war."
"To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them in a new spirit."
"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."
"As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards the accomplishment of its true destinies."
"When under the influence of certain reasons the low instincts are unbridled , the brute appears and rule over , stifling every noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin of any humanity in man."
"There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible ; now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim."
"Nothing depict better the poverty of human nature than to see men, placed at the head of a State, and who should, so to speak, embody the law, be concerned only with their own prestige and their own particular interests."
"The social organization of work is the most complicated and difficult problem that humanity has ever had to solve. It being possible to realize that organization neither by violence, nor by merely external or legal measures, it require the free participation of all to the joint work, and, consequently, to a regeneration of men that bring them to overcome their selfishness et understand their duty towards themselves et towards the community."
"So many really divine individuals humanity has not already produced ! Heros in the moral sense, who never got tired to practice renouncement and charity; bright intelligences who opened to the mind new ways and horizons; poets and wonderful artists, who created for him the image of an ideal world, the reflect of perfection. These are as many proofs of the presence of the absolu in the midst of humanity, for him that does not discover the immediate proof of that in himself."