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...

Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 440

It is customary to proclaim rights in order to be able to violate duties. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 418

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 ...

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

Appetites, greed, passions, do not threaten man’s existence so long as they do not proclaim themselves rights of man, as long as they are no...

Modernism ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it. It avoids announc...

When events mistreat him, the pessimist invokes rights. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 334

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

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

“Social justice” is the term used to claim anything to which we do not have a right. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 267

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

Each day we demand more from society so that we can demand less from ourselves. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 228

Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed....

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Se...

We can beg for mercy. But with what right do we demand justice? Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 203

The individual declares himself a member of some collective entity, with the aim of demanding in its name what he is ashamed to claim in his...

“The dignity of man,” “the greatness of man,” “the rights of man,” etc.: a verbal hemorrhage which the simple sight of our face in the morni...

Man would not feel so unfortunate if it were enough for him to desire without pretending to have a right to what he desires. Escolios a un T...