African Spir - Work Quotes

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The peculiar value that such and such activity can have for a man rather really depends on the spirit in which it was deployed than its importance or its scope. Thus the most humble work can be accomplished by a great genius, whereas the highest functions, such as to rule over a whole people, can be practiced in a petty spirit of personal glorification, as it is frequently seen.

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For those who do not need to work to provide for their maintenance, it is a question of conferring to their lives a content worthy of themselves. Now, this purpose can be attained only if we do not act solely with a view to our own benefits, but with a view to the benefit of all. Christ said: 'Where is your treasure, there also will be your heart.'

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The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

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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.

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The doctrine expounded by me is the true one, but I am not its author. I have only been, so to speak, the soil in which it has germinated and has developed itself with an extreme slowness in the course of long years. Also there has never been such a disproportion between the man and his work than in my case, and what is the saddest, is that one has to suffer because of the incapacity and the weakness of the other. A man more capable than me, possessing this doctrine, would already have stirred the world.

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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 and understand their duty towards themselves and towards the community.

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