Alain De Benoist Quotes

#1. There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

Peter York

#2. In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.

Alain De Benoist

#3. Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!

Alain De Benoist

#4. The promotion of 'average' individual causes a general levelling down.

Alain De Benoist

#5. Everyone comes with baggage, make sure you get one that comes with a rack

Josh Stern

#6. They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

Coolio

#7. One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.

Alain De Benoist

#8. Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.

Alain De Benoist

#9. Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

Leo Buscaglia

#11. In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his "salvation" by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely "subservient to God" (Romans 6:22).

Alain De Benoist

#12. Beware the god who cannot laugh.

Alain De Benoist

#13. Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the sickly expression Christianity has given to them, any more than it is necessary to break with aristocratic principles on the pretext that they have been caricatured by the bourgeoisie.

Alain De Benoist

#14. The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

Alain De Benoist

#15. The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.

Nouman Ali Khan

#16. God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.

Anatole France

#17. That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

Aubrey Menen

#18. The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.

Michael Lewis

#19. Don't tell me what I do and don't deserve. Don't tell me about tomorrow, or the future, or any of it.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#21. I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

Susan Orlean

#22. Whoever refuses to accept a part wants the whole, wants everything.

Sandor Marai

#23. Rewards can deliver a short-term boost - just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off - and, worse, can reduce a person's longer-term motivation to continue the project.

Daniel H. Pink