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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.”

1. “Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.”

2. “For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian...”

3. “It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian...”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.”

4. “Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.”

5. “People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.”

6. “Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.”

7. “Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.”

8. “As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Equality doesn’t exist in nature and therefore can be established only by force. He who wants geographic equality has to dynamite mountains and fill up the valleys. To get a hedge of even height one has to apply pruning shears. To achieve equal scholastic levels in a school one would have to pressure certain students into extra hard work while holding back others.”

9. “Equality doesn’t exist in nature and therefore can be established only by force. He who wants geographic equality has to dynamite mountains and fill up the valleys. To get a hedge of even height one has to apply pruning shears. To achieve equal scholastic levels in a school one would have to pressure certain students into extra hard work while holding back others.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect.”

10. “For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Modifying Clausewitz’ aphorism – war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means – one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation of parliamentarism with other means.”

11. “Modifying Clausewitz’ aphorism – war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means – one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation of parliamentarism with other means.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

12. “The true rightist is not a man who wants to go back to this or that institution for the sake of a return; he wants first to find out what is eternally true, eternally valid, and then either to restore or reinstall it, regardless of whether it seems obsolete, whether it is ancient, contemporary, or even without precedent, brand new, “ultramodern.” Old truths can be rediscovered, entirely new ones found. The Man of the Right does not have a time-bound, but a sovereign mind.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “The world, however, is indebted to Germany in a terrifying way, because she demonstrated to everyone what the ultimate conclusions of negative and destructive ideas really are. Ideas which in London or New York are repeated as seemingly harmless abstractions have been shown up by the Germans in all their blood-chilling finality. In this sense Nazi Germany has become the Gorgonian Mirror in which a decadent West could study its own features.”

13. “The world, however, is indebted to Germany in a terrifying way, because she demonstrated to everyone what the ultimate conclusions of negative and destructive ideas really are. Ideas which in London or New York are repeated as seemingly harmless abstractions have been shown up by the Germans in all their blood-chilling finality. In this sense Nazi Germany has become the Gorgonian Mirror in which a decadent West could study its own features.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.”

14. “There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.”

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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine.”

15. “Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the goodness of human nature and also because the Germans were literate, clean, technologically progressive, hard working, “modern,” sober, “orderly,” and so forth. Yet about human nature we get more concrete and more pertinent information from the Bible than from statistics dealing with secondary education, the frequency of bathtubs or the mileage of superhighways.”

16. “The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the goodness of human nature and also because the Germans were literate, clean, technologically progressive, hard working, “modern,” sober, “orderly,” and so forth. Yet about human nature we get more concrete and more pertinent information from the Bible than from statistics dealing with secondary education, the frequency of bathtubs or the mileage of superhighways.”

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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is ‘prisoners’.”

17. “Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is ‘prisoners’.”

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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Still, in summing up the situation, we must not forget that the New Left expresses certain truths and truisms and provides us with not a few straws in the wind. However immature, destructive, sterile, and confused, it is a cry of anguish and protest against a mechanized, profoundly leftish age. It is, in a sense, leftism to end all leftism.”

18. “Still, in summing up the situation, we must not forget that the New Left expresses certain truths and truisms and provides us with not a few straws in the wind. However immature, destructive, sterile, and confused, it is a cry of anguish and protest against a mechanized, profoundly leftish age. It is, in a sense, leftism to end all leftism.”

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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him at gunpoint to perform a delicate operation. The man would burst into tears. However, if one were to ask him to sound off on problems such as nuclear experiments, Vietnam, the borders of Israel, support for Indonesia, aid to Latin America, or recognition of Red China, in most cases he would start spouting opinions.”

19. “Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him at gunpoint to perform a delicate operation. The man would burst into tears. However, if one were to ask him to sound off on problems such as nuclear experiments, Vietnam, the borders of Israel, support for Indonesia, aid to Latin America, or recognition of Red China, in most cases he would start spouting opinions.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quote: “If only one country adopts conscription it automatically forces the rest of the world to imitate its practice. The “abyss calls to the abyss.” The United States has been so forced, against her best tradition, to adopt conscription and so becomes a victim of circumstances. Yet, though the majority dislike conscription, still the majority recognize it as a grim necessity of these times.”

20. “If only one country adopts conscription it automatically forces the rest of the world to imitate its practice. The “abyss calls to the abyss.” The United States has been so forced, against her best tradition, to adopt conscription and so becomes a victim of circumstances. Yet, though the majority dislike conscription, still the majority recognize it as a grim necessity of these times.”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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