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  • #1
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • #2
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    “Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.”
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila

  • #3
    Frédéric Bastiat
    “If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
    Frederic Bastiat, The Law

  • #4
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    “Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.”
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

  • #5
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    “Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.”
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

  • #6
    Michael Malice
    “Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.”
    Michael Malice

  • #7
    Michael Malice
    “We need’ is always code for ‘I want.”
    Michael Malice

  • #8
    Karl Popper
    “Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
    Karl R. Popper

  • #9
    Pat Conroy
    “When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #10
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #12
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    “Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from
    indifference toward the unique values which created it.”
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “É sabido pelas pessoas inteligentes que o cerne da amizade reside exclusivamente na humilhação.”
    Fiodor Dostoievski



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