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“first! And when a man is sure of his cause, he does not die so easily!”

“They know nothing about what you are, about what you represent. Your world means nothing to them.They won't try to understand. They'Il be tired.They'll be cold. They'll build a fire with your
lovely oak door.”

“Every object will lose the meaning you attach to it. What's beautiful won't be beautiful anymore. What's useful will become laughable. And what's useless will become absurd.”

“Man has never loved mankind as a whole - all its races, religions, cultures - but only those he recognized as his own, those of his clan, however large it might be. As for the rest, he forces his love, and it is forced from him, and when the evil is done, all that remains is for him to disin-tegrate. In the strange war that was coming, victory would go to those who loved themselves most.”

“Faced with this vanguard of an antiworld that had finally resolved to come in person and knock at the gates of abundance, he merely felt interest, intense interest.” Author describes darkness in a very fitting way. It’s to symbolize the darkness of the unknown masses.

“All the same, let us not despair.”

“THE PRESENT CONTAINS THE FUTURE.
It heralds it. Where do we stand?”

As a Christian, I still believe you cannot put race above God. Meaning, that we still have hope in the Resurrection, and in the goodness of all people.

“FROM THESE RESPONSES AND OTHERS, it appears that all these people - people who participate in governing the country and shaping opinion or did so in the past (on both left and right, I must insist) - practice a double language: a public and proclaimed language, and a personal, concealed one. It is as if their conscience is double…”

All unfolds in twenty-four hours, whereas in reality it is a continuous submersion, & over many years, the full measure of which, in all its catastrophe, we will only realize at the turning point of 2045-2050, when the final demographic shift has begun: in France and among close neighbors, 50 percent of inhabitants under 55 will be of non-European origin in the areas in which two-thirds of the population lives.”

“"Raspail is not writing about race, he is writing about civilization…."

“They rarely win. Their numbers diminish and their historic territories are lost. But their very resistance, along with the spiritual integrity it attests to, assures the transmission of what is noble, even if those who endure must go underground for centuries. They bury their dead, but not to forget them; they bury their dead with the hope of seeing them rise again.”

“To find the path to salvation, he needs to be rooted in the world and in a particular culture. Love of culture and nation has the power to rekindle charity in a spiritually frozen world.”

I disagree. We cannot serve God and Mammon both. We can pray for civil authorities, hope for a prosperous world, of seasonable weather, but when we put culture on a pedestal we put our faith in danger.

“Sometime during those seemingly good years after World War II - Les Trente Glorieuses, as the French call the period in which The Camp of the Saints was published
- the West fattened its body but lost its soul. In a sense, the apocalypse has already happened.”

“Badinter discerned that we are imperiled above all by Western civilization's own internal spiritual crisis. This insight is what now makes The Camp of the Saints so disturbing to read.
The desire to make ourselves culturally prostrate has come into the open.”

“Once one embraces the logic of civilizational repudiation, the endpoint is nihilism and cultural death. The Alpha is European guilt. The Omega is Eurocide.”

“Multicultural progressivism demands the subjugation and destruction of all traditional forms of life. Its prime target is the West because the engine that drives it is Western cowardice and self-hatred; multiculturalism is the cultural imperialism of European self-loathing.”

“This formulation - each must decide - is fatal. It dissolves the nation into atomized individuals.”

“The West's brand of moral universalism, Ra-spail's novel suggests, causes the West's own demise.”

“Whatever their virtues, the migrants are materially and culturally destitute. That is why they find the West attractive. They do not have a mission to redeem sinful Europe; they are seeking deliverance from poverty and from the often brutal oppression and inequalities of non-Western societies.”

“Raspail's chief purpose, therefore, was not to predict an imminent future. He sought to take seriously the sentiments of self-loathing and the desire for reverse colonization that were gaining strength in Europe. The Camp of the Saints is best read as a long thought experiment, a fictional depiction of the civilizational consequences of this way of thinking.”

“(Raspail) wondered whether the fate of the indigenous peoples of Europe would be similar to the peoples who had vanished in the wake of European colonization. Now, as Europeans retreated from their empires, were they just as vulnerable, just as liable to vanish from history - and just as deserving of a lament?”

“Countering those who spurn the past and hail technological conformity, Raspail told the stories of disappearing peoples whom progressives consigned to extinction.”

“The reader of this book should be warned: to talk about The Camp of the Saints, still less to take it seriously and defend it, is not for the faint of heart. You must be prepared to pay the price.”

“And many American conservatives now enforce the rules of reading set by the Left. Even in the few remaining institutions they control, conservatives are constantly fearful of progressive reproaches. In their quixotic bids to charm the same leftists who hate them, conservatives purge their ranks and turn on their friends.”

“Rather, the novel's genius lies in the depiction of an apocalypse in the original sense of that term.”

“Too spiritually weak to appreciate their own distinction and to defend themselves, Westerners welcome their own destruction under the guise of creating a perfect world cleansed of their past sins.”

“The Camp of the Saints, by contrast, divulges a dystopia as it comes to be. It explores the implications of modern spiritual self-hatred.”

“unlike Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints lacks any aura of respectability.”