“The modern world shall not be punished:
It is the punishment.”
~ Nicolas Gomez-Davila”
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It is the punishment.”
~ Nicolas Gomez-Davila”
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“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn. Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they -- this garden Earth, civilized and knowing, to be torn apart again that Man might hope again in wretched darkness.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.”
― Escolios a un texto implícito: Tomo II
― Escolios a un texto implícito: Tomo II
“I am an aristocrat: I love liberty, I hate equality.”
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“More importantly, it must be made clear again that the idea of democracy is immoral as well as uneconomical. As for the moral status of majority rule, it must be pointed out that it allows for A and B to band together to rip off C, C and A in tum joining to rip off B, and then B and C conspiring against A, and so on. This is not justice but a moral outrage, and rather than treating democracy and democrats with respect, they should be treated with open contempt and ridiculed as moral frauds.”
― Democracy: The God That Failed
― Democracy: The God That Failed
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