Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Liberty’s remaining partisans in our time tend to forget that a certain old and trivial bourgeois thesis is the proof itself: the condition ...

Liberty is not the fruit of order alone; it is the fruit of mutual concessions between order and disorder. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Se...

“Liberties” are social precincts in which the individual can move without any coercion; “Liberty,” on the other hand, is a metaphysical prin...

Freedom intoxicates man as a symbol of independence from God. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 428

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

The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it. Escolio...

Man conceals under the name of liberty his hunger for sovereignty. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 403

No one grants humanity certain extreme liberties except someone indifferent to its destiny. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 40...

Man can be granted all types of liberties, except that of dressing himself and of edifying his taste. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

To corrupt the individual it suffices to teach him to call his personal desires rights and the rights of others abuses. Escolios a un Texto ...

In every historical situation there always arises somebody to defend in the name of liberty, humanity, or justice, the stupid opinion. Escol...

To liberate man is to subject him to greed and sex. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 332

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

Reactionary thought breaks into history as concrete liberty’s shout of warning, as the spasm of anguish in the face of the unlimited despoti...

Absolutism, whether intellectual or political, is the capital sin against the hierarchical method. Usurpation, by one of the terms in the s...

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

The standard-bearers of liberty celebrated by the 19th century ended up as the vanguard of industrial despotism. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

Modern society tramples liberties underfoot, like a column of tanks tramples a procession of pious women. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

The percentage of eligible voters who abstain from voting measures the degree of concrete liberty in a democracy. Where liberty is fictitiou...

The 19th century did not live with more anguish because of its sexual repression than the 20th century with its sexual liberation. Identical...