#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

#2,744

The reactionary’s objection is not discussed; it is disdained.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441

#2,670

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 430

#2,666

The root of reactionary thought is not distrust of reason but distrust of the will.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 430

#2,617

Reactionary texts appear obsolete to contemporaries and surprisingly relevant to posterity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 423

#2,599

Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 420

#2,598

We reactionaries provide idiots the pleasure of feeling like daring avant-garde thinkers.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 420

#2,523

Revolutions are carried out in order to change the ownership of property and the names of streets.
The revolutionary who seeks to change “man’s condition” ends up being shot for being a counter-revolutionary.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 406

#2,404

To win a bet, in our time, one must bet for the individuals or the causes which one would like to see lose.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 388

#2,387

Whoever defeats a noble cause is the one who has really been defeated.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 386

#2,386

Whoever is not ready to prefer defeat in certain circumstances sooner or later commits the very crimes he denounces.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 385

#2,357

To be a reactionary is to understand that man is a problem without a human solution.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 381

#2,324

Unless what we write seems obsolete to modern man, immature to the adult, trivial to the serious man, we must start over.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 377

#2,310

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 374

#2,298

No past is ideal.
But only from the past do ideals arise that are not lymphatic, ideals with blood in their veins.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,287

The first generation of reactionaries accumulated warnings, the second only accumulated predictions, the following generations continue accumulating proofs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 371

#2,253

The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction.
The past that he admires is not a goal but an exemplification of his dreams.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 366

#2,200

Today’s reactionary has a satisfaction which yesterday’s did not: to see modern programs end not only in disaster but also in ridicule.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 358

#2,190

The naturally democratic soul feels that neither its defects, nor its vices, nor its crimes, affect its substantial excellence. The reactionary, on the other hand, feels that all corruption ferments in his soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 356

#2,179

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 354