African Spir Quotes

It is not on the ruins of liberty that we may in the future build justice.

Injustice having always been predominant on earth, there are some who imagine that this existing social order will continue forever. That this order was able to last until now, has mainly been due to the conviction of people that it was of divine institution.

Nothing depicts better the poverty of human nature than to see men, placed as the leaders of nations, be preoccupied only with their own prestige and their own personal interest.

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

Morality, to be effective, has to be well-reasoned. To want to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a kind of education using constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make an artificial thing, devoid of lasting value.

There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.