Nick Boreham

“To put the point another way: the Marxist theory of history, which explains all historical development as the product of changes in the economic infrastructure, is false.”
― Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left

“The condition of society is essentially one of domination, in which people are bound to each other by their attachments, and distinguished by rivalries and competition.”
― Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left

“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
― Petronius Arbiter