Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebel...

Where the law is not customary law, it is easily turned into a mere political weapon. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 471

The majority of properly modern customs would be crimes in an authentically civilized society. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

Human warmth in a society diminishes by the same measure that its legislation is perfected. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 45...

A healthily constituted state is one where innumerable obstacles restrict and impede the freedom of the legislator. Escolios a un Texto Impl...

One can only speak of the sovereignty of the law where the legislator’s function is reduced to consulting the consensus of custom in the lig...

Neither a declaration of human rights, nor the proclamation of a constitution, nor an appeal to natural law, protects against the arbitrary ...

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 429

Law is the easiest method of exercising tyranny. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 423

An excess of laws emasculates. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 409

The absence of legal hierarchies facilitates the rise of the less scrupulous. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 395

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

Without canon law the Church would not have had her admirable institutional presence in history. But the vices of Catholic theology stem fro...

The spirit is fallible submission to norms, not infallible subjection to laws. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 286

Moderate democrats promulgate the laws with which radical democrats exterminate them. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 253

Man today oscillates between the sterile rigidity of the law and the vulgar disorder of instinct. He knows nothing of discipline, courtesy, ...

Democratic tribunals do not make the guilty tremble, but rather the accused. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 243

Legal freedom of expression has grown alongside the sociological enslavement of thought. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 235

The rapid evolution of a society destroys its customs. And imposes on the individual, in place of the silent education of traditions, the re...

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently. Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely. Esc...