Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own. Escolios a un...

Falsifying the past is how the left has sought to elaborate the future. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 442

The vice which afflicts the right is cynicism, and that which afflicts the left is deceit. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 439

Asking the state to do what only society should do is the error of the left. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 434

Unless circumstances constrain him, there is no radically leftist Jew. The people that discovered divine absolutism does not make deals with...

The Marxist’s mind fossilizes with time; the leftist’s becomes soft and spongy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 417

Congenital leftism is a disease that is cured in a Communist clime. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 392

If the left continues adopting, one after another, the objections that we reactionaries have raised against the modern world, we will have t...

The left does not condemn violence until it hears it pounding on its door. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 371

The left no longer dares proclaim itself a hope, but at the most fate. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 365

The leftist writer never writes a history, but rather illustrates an outline with examples. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 36...

The leftist obviously refuses to understand that the conclusions of bourgeois thought are the principles of leftist thought. Escolios a un T...

Leftists and rightists merely argue about who is to have possession of industrial society. The reactionary longs for its death. Escolios a u...

We reactionaries are unfortunate: the left steals our ideas and the right our vocabulary. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 353

The left is a collection of those who blame society for nature’s shabby treatment of them. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 353

The left calls people situated just to their right rightists. The reactionary is not to the right of the left, but in front of it. Escolios ...

The left never attributes its failure to a mistaken diagnosis but to the perversity of events. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

What the leftist historian considers central to an age has never been the subject of works that have been admired by posterity. Escolios a u...

The left’s theses are trains of thought that are carefully stopped before they reach the argument that demolishes them. Escolios a un Texto ...

Only the political failure of the right balances, in our time, the literary failure of the left. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...