Top 28 Kuehnelt-leddihn Quotes
#1. I knew being your girlfriend wouldn't have many perks. I still owe you things."
"You have plenty of perks," I tell her. "You just choose not to delight in them.
Krista Ritchie
#2. I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.
Edmund White
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#6. I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.
Christian Boltanski
#7. The man in a free society must either blame himself (which leads to the melancholia of those plagued by inferiority complexes) or will be bound to accuse imaginary conspiraces of ill-wishers and downright enemies.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#9. If there is no personal God,everything is permissablel, and if God exists,everthing is possible.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#10. Cauchy was not interested in the needs of engineers. Cauchy was interested in the truth.
Jordan Ellenberg
#11. To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds, feelings of revenge, misunderstandings, and frictions. It is the surest guarantee for perpetual mass wars.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#12. 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.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#13. 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
#14. Here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
Albert Camus
#16. You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.
Jennifer Lopez
#17. My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'
Luanne Rice
#18. No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated
Elon Musk
#19. Suspected everyone did - from Winnie, the least pulchritudinous,
Kate Atkinson
#20. 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'.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#21. 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
#22. These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.
Lawrence Durrell
#23. 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
#24. The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less "controllable" than say, the urban dweller.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#25. Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.
Bryant McGill
#26. Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and distraction.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#27. 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
#28. 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
