Mike Maxwell > Quotes

“It’s truly a paradox that great things have humble and obscure beginnings, whereas ostentatious beginnings usually attach to insignificant things. The French Constitution of 1791—announced with a great trumpeting forth of praise, long deliberations, longer revisions, made for all time—lasted less than a year. It’s the thing that dignifies the name, not the other way around. We began this book talking about Aeschylus, the great tragedian of Greece. His art is one of the most elevated expressions man has ever produced. The very word tragedy brings to mind such titans as Sophocles and Shakespeare, and yet the word comes from a root that means “goat song”. Where tragedy would go could not have been planned by the first tragedian, only brought about by fas, by the work of circumstances.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

“Darwin is often taken as the enemy of tradition, but traditions are just those social institutions that have weathered selective pressures. The longer a thing has survived, the more likely that it serves an adaptive purpose; “racism” is held up as the cardinal modern sin, but ethnocentrism is deeply rooted in our brain structure, therefore ancient. [...] Natural selection is anything but the liberal’s friend. Darwinism is the nail in the coffin of the Enlightenment, which is why you’re not allowed to apply it to anything except bees and cuttlefish.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

“There’s no question that you can accurately judge people by how they look. But should you? The only objection that’s remotely plausible is that you can judge groups as groups but you can’t judge individuals as members of groups. But even this is stupid when you think about it for two seconds—of course you can, because this is the whole point of pattern recognition. Most men can be stronger than most women without every man being stronger than every woman. If you want to see how insane the results of considering men and women equally strong are, look at how transgender “women” (mutilated men) dominate real women in sports.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

“The basic move of liberalism is to replace the social centre (normal people) with the margin (foreigners, minorities, deviants) forever. The stack does that by shielding these marginal identities from any criticism ever, and it is an especially clear example of the monstrous principle of equity at work. If you assume that there are fundamentally no differences between people, any difference in outcomes must be evidence of secret, hidden oppression. The obese, HIV+ otherkin with 80 IQ isn’t ignored because she’s creepy and stupid, it’s because of “systemic bias”, and she needs to be platformed for you to hear her wonderful ideas. It all sounds insane when laid out in plain language, but the same principle is at work in something that many decent and well-adjusted people would defend: civil rights law.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

“Anyone who has to build a complex system that actually works can’t afford to ignore generalizations. [...] The law is one such complex system that only works if you don’t ignore stereotypes: there’s a saying in Roman law that “the law must be founded on what happens most often, not on the unexpected”. [...] It’s often said by the same liberals that say “believe all women” that stereotypes don’t matter because you don’t meet groups, only individuals. You don’t, but still, group membership matters greatly to your encounters with the individuals in that group. You only meet individuals, yes—but every interaction is mediated through both their group membership and yours, whether the group be race, sex, nationality, or what have you. [...] Even one-on-one, your interactions with others are filtered through a background of assumptions, values, and perspectives that neither of you chose or can escape.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

“The logic of liberalism is hatred of the social centre—liberalism is essentially a novelty-seeking formula that forever replaces the centre with the margin. The king is the centre of society. But because we hate the centre, we have to replace him with something slightly more marginal—the aristocracy becomes the new centre. But because we hate the centre, we have to replace the aristocracy with something slightly more marginal—the bourgeoisie becomes the new centre. This process of hollowing out the centre continues until foreigners, minorities, and deviants are at the centre, as in wokeness. Eventually even that is too familiar, and we have to replace the human altogether —we have arrived at transhumanism. Liberalism is a fundamentally entropic force, hence its obsession with change and negative values (freedom, openness, tolerance, inclusion, diversity, etc.) It breaks down borders, whether political or conceptual.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

“The history of the 20th century, especially the second half, has been the history of racial minorities organizing and acting in their own racial interests, with great success. As of 2022, about 76% of Americans were white, but as of that same year, only 41% of Ivy League students were white; this disparity is mainly driven by diversity quotas, which mandate that minority students with lower aptitude and SAT scores be accepted over white students with higher scores. The traditional way of fixing the problem would be for white people to organize in their own interest, but doing so is absolutely forbidden. [...] If this were aimed at any other racial group, it would be in violation of article 19 of the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It’s “ethnocentrism for me, diversity for thee.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

“The good king, as opposed to the mere executor, exercises personal power. In the transition to liberalism, we have replaced loyalty to men with loyalty to abstract principles and institutions. Feminist Carol Hanisch said that “the personal is political”, but she had it backwards: the political is personal. The replacement of loyalty to men with loyalty to ideas has been a disaster for the human race—we call this ideology. Ideological loyalty is divisive and creates bitter disagreement over minor doctrinal points; personal loyalty only needs agreement on who the leader is.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought