Charles Grapski

“He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.”
― Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

“On the Russian revolutionaries:

To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.”
― Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

“We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation's good breeding.”
― Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

“Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.”
― Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man