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Afrikan Spir96 quotes“Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner).”
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In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, – “impérissable”, Fr.) good.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate).
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish (“pourront être édifiées”, Fr.) the real basis of morality.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it’s contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment).
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir Having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others (“autrui”, Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at (“visant à”, Fr.) expansion or hegemony.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir In their country, two fellow coutrymen whose paths berely cross (or see each only only briefly) with inferrence, would effusively rush themselves up (or throw themselves) into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run (“ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue”, Fr.); all that involve (or imply…) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir A good man (“un homme de bien”, Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
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Ai YazawaAi Yazawa The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley I’ve developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
Adrian BelewAdrian Belew Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
Adolf GallandAdolf Galland I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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Ada Louise HuxtableAda Louise Huxtable The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste.
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