Quotes About Society

El progresista sueña en la estabulación científica de la humanidad.

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

Civilization is what is born when the soul does not surrender to its congenital vulgarity.

Die moderne Literatur: dieses kolossale reaktionäre Unterfangen.

Modern literature: this colossal reactionary enterprise.

Capitalism is the monstrous distortion of private property by liberal democracy.

Humanity will one day solemnly recall the events that initiated the dismantlement of industrial society.

When respect for tradition dies out, society, in its incessant desire to renew itself, consumes itself in a frenzy.

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

To live is modern man's only value. Even the modern hero does not die except in the name of life.

They started out calling liberal institutions democratic, and they ended up calling democratic despotisms liberal.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

So wie es keine Tragödie gibt außer unter Fürsten und unter Götter, so gibt es keine Architektur außer für Götter und für Fürsten. Die moderne Architektur ist ein bürgerliches Melodrama.

We reactionaries will live in the future society just as uncomfortably as will the Marxists; but the Marxists will look upon it with the eyes of a dumbfounded father, while we will regard it with the irony of a stranger.

The disaster of democracy only becomes apparent when its promises have been fully fulfilled.

This century has succeeded in turning sex into a trivial activity and an odious topic.

When they die, aristocracies explode; democracies deflate.

Eroticism and Gnosticism are the individual's recourse against the anonymity of mass society.

The psychiatrist considers only vulgar behavior sane.

The two most pressing problems of the contemporary world: demographic expansion and genetic deterioration are unsolvable. Liberal principles prevent the solution of the first, egalitarian ones that of the second.

By embracing the "modern mentality," Christianity became a doctrine which it is not easy to respect, nor interesting to do so.

Die Aristokraten sind die normalen; die Demokraten die Fehlgeburten der Geschichte.

Although it grieves the angelism of the democrat: one cannot build a civilisation with miserable biological material.

The cultural standard of an intelligent people sinks as its standard of living rises.