#2,980

It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 476

#2,975

The modern metropolis is not a city; it is a disease.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,974

Society until yesterday had notables; today it only has celebrities.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,972

Fashion, even more than technology, is the cause of the modern world’s uniformity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,959

One must beware of those who are said “to have much merit.” They always have some past to avenge.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,954

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 472

#2,947

The reactionary’s ideal is not a paradisiacal society. It is a society similar to the society that existed in the peaceful intervals of the old European society, of Alteuropa, before the demographic, industrial, and democratic catastrophe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,946

In modern society, capitalism is the only barrier to the spontaneous totalitarianism of the industrial system.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,931

Religion is socially effective not when it adopts socio-political solutions, but when it succeeds in having society be spontaneously influenced by purely religious attitudes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 468

#2,924

The majority of properly modern customs would be crimes in an authentically civilized society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,923

The Christian knows with certainty what his personal behavior should be, but he can never state for certain that he is not making a mistake by adopting this or that social reform.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,921

In a healthy society, the state is the organ of the ruling class; in a hunchbacked society, the state is the instrument of a bureaucratic class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

#2,911

Boring, like an illustrious foreign visitor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,907

In addition to civilized societies and semi-civilized societies, there are pseudo-civilized societies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,888

The sinister uniformity that threatens us will not be imposed by a doctrine, but by a uniform economic and social conditioning.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,879

The victims of the most serious individual and social catastrophes are often not even aware: individuals become brutish, societies become degraded, unawares.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 461

#2,870

The results of modern “liberation” make us remember with nostalgia the abolished “bourgeois hypocrisies.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 460

#2,865

The immigration of the peasant into the cities was less disastrous than that of the notable from the people.
Rural society, on the one hand, lost the structure of prestige that used to discipline it, and the notable, on the other, was transformed into an anonymous particle of the amorphous human mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,854

The police force is the only social structure in the classless society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457

#2,850

The nature of the work of art can depend on social conditions, but its aesthetic quality depends on nothing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456