Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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

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 ...

Demographic pressure makes people brutish. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 467

An overpopulated country is one where every citizen is practically anonymous. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 409

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

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...

The homogeneity of a society increases with the number of its members. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 323

A limited population produces fewer ordinary intelligences than a numerous population, but it can produce an equal or greater number of tale...

An abrupt demographic expansion rejuvenates society and makes its stupidities recrudesce. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 233

The city is disappearing while the entire world is becoming urbanized. A city, in the West, was a person. Today, overexpansion and state c...

A totalitarian state is the structure into which societies crystallize under demographic pressures. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...

Population growth disquiets the demographer only when he fears that it will impede economic progress or make it harder to feed the masses. ...