African Spir - Time Quotes

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Moral improvement require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer; For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse that already threaten, the whole civilization will risks to disappear.

African Spir
As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about severe disasters, if we do turn life in time the social life in new directions.

African Spir
The feeling of solidarity that is born amidst a community rest on the feeling of antagonism arouse by those who are opposed to it. Most of the time we only adhere to a party or a group, in order to better differentiate ourselves of another.

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
Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure. It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown the best of themselves.

African Spir
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.

African Spir
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbor as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

African Spir
To spend for destruction ten times more than for instruction, such is the fashion in our time; and men seriously regard themselves as rational beings!

African Spir