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Man as a pure animal does not exist
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Politics is activity in relation to power
Politics is activity in relation to power.
For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not understand. Systems like theirs are only historical curiosities to the 20th century, unless they happen to claim to be appropriate descriptions of Reality. Anyone who believes in these antiquated fantasies stamps himself as ludicrous, posthumous, ineffective, and superfluous. No leading men of the coming decades will be Darwinians, Marxians or Freudians.