Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“My thesis, therefore, is this: the very perfection with which the XIXth Century gave an organisation to certain orders of existence as caused the masses…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: René Guénon, “Crisis of the Modern World”
“Finally, there remains one direct consequence of the democratic idea to consider, and this is the negation of the idea of an elite; it is…
Quote of the Week: Juan Donoso Cortés, “Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism”
“And what we have said of ages, can be said of men. Denying or granting them the faith, God denies or grants them the truth….
Quote of the Week: Dinesh D’Souza, “Letter to a Young Conservative”
“The people in democratic society empower their government to act in their interest. Why should their elected representatives be neutral between their interests and, say,…
Quote of the Week: Hugh Cecil, “Conservatism”
“The championship of religion is therefore the most important of the functions of Conservatism. It is the keystone of the arch upon which the whole…
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“The genuinely conservative government will not shy away from drawing necessary distinctions between what is compatible with a free society and what is not conducive…
Quote of the Week: Julius Evola, “Revolt Against the Modern World”
“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in…
Quote of the Week: Markus Willinger, “Generation Identity”
“But what should Europeans celebrate? What reason does Europe have to look forward to the future? What good could the new year bring to our…
Quote of the Week: Samuel Coleridge, “The Statesman’s Manual”
“Need I add the inherent unfitness, as well as the direful consequences, of making virtue … depend on talent – a gift so unequally dispensed…
Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima, “Sun & Steel”
“The nature of this steel is odd. I found that as I increased its weight little by little, the effect was like a pair of…