Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Human ties are the greatest distorter of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don’t know or haven’t made the effort to understand.

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando