#2,960

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,947

The reactionary’s ideal is not a paradisiacal society. It is a society similar to the society that existed in the peaceful intervals of the old European society, of Alteuropa, before the demographic, industrial, and democratic catastrophe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,926

Demographic pressure makes people brutish.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,549

An overpopulated country is one where every citizen is practically anonymous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 409

#2,013

The larger a democratic country is, the more mediocre its rulers must be: they are elected by more people.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 327

#2,002

If one only aspires to provide a growing number of persons with a growing number of goods, without worrying about the quality of the persons, or of the goods, then capitalism is the perfect solution.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 326

#1,989

The homogeneity of a society increases with the number of its members.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 323

#1,954

A limited population produces fewer ordinary intelligences than a numerous population, but it can produce an equal or greater number of talents.
Great demographic densities are the breeding grounds of mediocrity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,363

An abrupt demographic expansion rejuvenates society and makes its stupidities recrudesce.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,142

The city is disappearing while the entire world is becoming urbanized.
A city, in the West, was a person.
Today, overexpansion and state centralism are disintegrating it into a mere inanimate heap of housing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 201

#402

A totalitarian state is the structure into which societies crystallize under demographic pressures.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 82

#394

Population growth disquiets the demographer only when he fears that it will impede economic progress or make it harder to feed the masses.
But that man needs solitude, that human proliferation produces cruel societies, that distance is required between men so that the spirit might breathe, does not interest him.
The quality of a man does not matter to him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 81