Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

There exist two interpretations of the popular vote, one democratic, the other liberal. According to the democratic interpretation what the ...

They started out calling liberal institutions democratic, and they ended up calling democratic despotisms liberal. Escolios a un Texto Implí...

The liberal is always mistaken because he does not distinguish between the consequences he attributes to his intentions and the consequences...

Capitalism is the monstrous distortion of private property by liberal democracy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 378

Either man has rights, or the people is sovereign. The simultaneous assertion of two mutually exclusive theses is what people have called li...

Liberalism proclaims the right of the individual to degrade oneself, provided one’s degradation does not impede the degradation of one’s nei...

The absolutist wishes for a sovereign force that will subdue all others, the liberal a multitude of weak forces that will neutralize each ot...

Liberal ideas are likeable. Their consequences ruinous. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 310

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

Modern liberalism no longer defends any of the “rights of man” except the right to consume. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 24...

Today’s conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 2...

Liberalism has not fought for the freedom, but for the irresponsibility, of the press. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 189

To find oneself at the mercy of the people’s whims, thanks to universal suffrage, is what liberalism calls the guarantee of freedom. Escolio...

Tolerance consists of a firm decision to allow them to insult everything we seek to love and respect, as long as they do not threaten our ma...

A man is called a liberal if he does not understand that he is sacrificing liberty except when it is too late to save it. Escolios a un Text...

Liberal parties never understand that the opposite of despotism is not stupidity, but authority. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...