African Spir - State Quotes

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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms of politeness are necessary as a substitute to benevolence.

African Spir
The incorporation of every individual in a collective mechanism of production, would mean the renunciation for man himself of its independence and his dignity as a rational being. The results of such a state of things would be: regression and deterioration in every fields of life. For the true progress consist in the accomplishment of higher ends, and these would be directly made impossible in a coercive social mechanism. Let us think to the fate that, in these conditions, new truths would have in store.

African Spir
As long as men, in their aberration, will go out of their way in every manners to harm and torment each others, it is an urgent duty, for those who are conscious of the absurdity of such a state of affairs, to strive to put them in the picture about their wildness.

African Spir
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

African Spir
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.

African Spir
So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware of their true mission, would want to get on to abolish every politics aiming at expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

African Spir
We would not permanently change by violence a state of affairs; we can repress resistances for a certain time, but not attain thus a lasting result.

African Spir
The duty of the State is double; it must strive to perfect its member, by promoting their intellectual and moral progress, and try to keep the right and the justice in their mutual relationships.

African Spir