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Modern stupidities are more irritating than ancient stupidities because their proselytes seek to justify them in the name of reason.

To deny that a "human nature" exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.

A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

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

The reactionary is that fool who possesses the vanity to judge history, and the immorality to come to terms with it.

An American historian cannot write history without lamenting that providence did not consult him beforehand.

Discipline is not so much a social necessity as an aesthetic obligation.

The only indices of civilization are the clarity, lucidity, order, good manners of everyday prose.

Sociological categories authorize us to move about in society without paying attention to each man's irreplaceable individuality. Sociology is the ideology of our indifference toward our neighbor.

Physiology on one side, sociology on another, signed the partition of psychology. Personal life has been abolished, like the Polish Sejm.

If it is merely a matter of organizing an earthly paradise, curates are more than enough. The devil will do.

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion's case were not just as serious.

To excuse his attacks against the world, man determined that matter is inert.

The war in the Vendée is the only political conflict that arouses my complete sympathy without troubling my reason.

Die moderne Literatur: dieses kolossale reaktionäre Unterfangen.

Capitalism is abominable because it achieves that disgusting prosperity promised in vain by the socialism that hates it.

Eugenics appals those who fear its judgment.

Nietzsche is merely rude; Hegel is blasphemous.

Salvador Allende: Contra Judíos, Homosexuales y otros ´degenerados´".

Este acercamiento entusiasmó tanto a la Unión Soviética, que en el mismo año de 1964 instaló en Chile una residencia legal de la KGB[4] en Santiago.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

John the Baptist would have looked debonair in comparison, even after Salome got her prize.