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#2,988

Writing is the only way to distance oneself from the century in which it was one’s lot to be born.

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#2,987

Concerning himself intensely with his neighbor’s condition allows the Christian to dissimulate to himself his doubts about the divinity of Christ and the existence of God.
Charity can be the most subtle form of apostasy.

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#2,986

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

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#2,985

Envy tends to be the true force behind moral indignation.

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#2,984

What is important is not that man believe in the existence of God; what is important is that God exist.

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#2,983

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.

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#2,982

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect.
The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing.
The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin.
From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ.

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#2,981

The voter does not even vote for what he wants; he only votes for what he thinks he wants.

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#2,980

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

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#2,979

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law.
The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another’s duty.

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#2,978

Nobody in politics can foresee the consequences either of what he destroys, or of what he constructs.

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#2,977

The contemporary Church prefers to practice an electoral Catholicism.
It prefers the enthusiasm of great crowds to individual conversions.

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#2,976

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

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#2,975

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

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#2,974

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

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#2,973

In the modern state there now exist only two parties: citizens and bureaucracy.

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#2,972

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

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#2,971

The progressive Christian’s error lies in believing that Christianity’s perennial polemic against the rich is an implicit defense of socialist programs.

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#2,970

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence “Freedom,” but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

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#2,969

Ever since Wundt, one of the classic places of “disguised unemployment” is the experimental psychology laboratory.

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#2,968

The so highly acclaimed “dominion of man over nature” turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

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#2,967

No one is more insufferable than a man who does not suspect, once in a while, that he might not be right.

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#2,966

Superficial, like the sociological explanation of any behavior.

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#2,965

If one does not believe in God, the only honest alternative is vulgar utilitarianism.
The rest is rhetoric.

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#2,964

A noble society is one where obeying and exercising authority are ethical behaviors, and not mere practical necessities.

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#2,963

That the abandonment of the “what for” in the sciences has been productive is indisputable, but it is an admission of defeat.

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#2,962

Unlimited gullibility is required to be able to believe that any social condition can be improved in any other way than slowly, gradually, and involuntarily.

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#2,961

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience.

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#2,960

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

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#2,959

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

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#2,958

A bureaucracy ultimately always ends up costing the people more than an upper class.

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#2,957

Compared to the sophisticated structure of every historical fact, Marxism’s generalizations possess a touching naiveté.

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#2,956

The modern clergy believe they can bring man closer to Christ by insisting on Christ’s humanity.
Thus forgetting that we do not trust in Christ because He is man, but because He is God.

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#2,955

Those who insist on being up to date with today’s fashion are less irritating than those who try too hard when they do not feel that they are up to date with tomorrow’s fashion.
The bourgeoisie is aesthetically more tolerable than the avant-garde.

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#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.

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#2,953

Historical events stop being interesting the more accustomed their participants become to judging everything in purely secular categories.
Without the intervention of gods everything becomes boring.

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#2,952

If we are ignorant of an epoch’s art, its history is a colorless narrative.

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#2,951

The people that awakes, first shouts, then gets drunk, pillages, [and] murders, and later goes back to sleep.

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#2,950

Why not imagine the possibility, after several centuries of Soviet hegemony, of the conversion of a new Constantine?

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#2,949

Where the law is not customary law, it is easily turned into a mere political weapon.

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#2,948

The problem of increasing inflation could be solved, if the modern mentality did not put up insurmountable resistance against any attempt to restrain human greed.

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#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.

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#2,946

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

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#2,945

It is not primitive cults that discredit religion, but American sects.

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#2,944

“Nature” was a pre-Romantic discovery which Romanticism propagated, and which technology is killing in our days.

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#2,943

There exist two interpretations of the popular vote, one democratic, the other liberal.
According to the democratic interpretation what the majority resolves upon is true; according to the liberal interpretation the majority merely chooses one option.
A dogmatic and absolutist interpretation, the one; a skeptical and discreet interpretation, the other.

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#2,942

The secret longing of every civilized society is not to abolish inequality, but to educate it.

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#2,941

Except in a few countries, trying to “promote culture” while recommending the reading of “national authors” is a contradictory endeavor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469