Weng Kin

“War, as father
of all things, and king,
names few
to serve as gods,
and of the rest makes
these men slaves,
those free.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Das Einzige, wonach wir mit Leidenschaft trachten, ist das Anknüpfen menschlicher Beziehungen, nichts ist uns umgekehrt so schmerzlich als das Auflösen derselben. Unser Glück und Unglück hängt von unseren menschlichen Beziehungen ab.”
― Ricarda Huch, Quellen des Lebens

“The strength of a nation is derived from the character, not from the wealth, nor from the multitude of its people.”
― Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

“In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman...”
― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West