Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The secret longing of every civilized society is not to abolish inequality, but to educate it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

Unjust inequality is not remedied by equality, but by just inequality. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 466

A civilized society requires that in it, as in the old Christian society, equality and inequality be in permanent dialogue. Escolios a un Te...

Inequality and equality are theses that should be defended alternatively, in opposition to the dominant social climate. Escolios a un Texto ...

Where equality allows freedom to enter, inequality slips in. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 438

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters. Escolios a un Texto...

Where the customs and the laws permit everyone to aspire to everything, everyone lives a frustrated life, no matter what position he comes t...

The economic inflation at the end of this century is a moral phenomenon. The result, and at the same time the punishment, of egalitarian gre...

“Equality of opportunity” does not mean the possibility for all to be decent, but the right of all not to be decent. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

In order to oppress the people, it is necessary to suppress in the name of the people that which stands out from the people. Escolios a un T...

Liberty is the right to be different; equality is a ban on being different. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 321

Dreams of excellence do not deserve respect except when they do not disguise a vulgar appetite for superiority. Escolios a un Texto Implícit...

Men do not proclaim themselves equals because they believe they are sons of God, but when they believe they partake of divinity. Escolios a ...

Without a hierarchical structure it is not possible to transform freedom from a fable into a fact. The liberal always discovers too late th...

The man who is disrespectful in order to demonstrate his equality certifies his inferiority. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 2...

Only among friends are there no ranks. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 286

Systematic familiarity is the hypocrisy of an egalitarian who considers himself inferior, or superior, but not equal. Escolios a un Texto Im...

The reactionary does not condemn the bourgeois mentality, but rather its predominance. What we reactionaries deplore is the absorption of th...

To insult an inferior is just slightly more vile than to flatter him. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 266

The egalitarian becomes exasperated when he sees that mandatory schooling wipes out conventional inequality only to aggravate innate inequal...