Quotes About Dávila

Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.

I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.

Ideologies were invented so that men who do not think can give their opinions.

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.

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

Eugenics appals those who fear its judgment.