August 2013
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On the stale air of our societies
"We are told that the air of the world is unbreathable. I agree. But the first Christians found every morning at their door an atmosphere saturated with vices, idols, and incense offered to the deities. For more than two hundred years they were relegated, slandered, and marginalized by the current of the social river that carried them away. Continue reading
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On totalitarian states
"Totalitarian states, which alternately use lies and violence (lies to cover up violence and violence to silence those who discover the lies), owe the greater part of their success to having paralyzed the forces of reaction against imposture and lies. This is on the moral level. Continue reading
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Speech by Donoso Cortes (1850)
"Regular armies are today the only thing that prevents civilization from being lost in barbarism. Today a new spectacle is presented to our eyes in history, new in the world: when, gentlemen, has the world seen, except in our own days, that we are moving towards civilization by arms and towards Continue reading