Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Campaigns Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Egalitarian Copy Share Image
“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Art Copy Share Image
Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Charity Copy Share Image
“A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Impatience Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Civilizations Copy Share Image
“The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Freedom Copy Share Image
“Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Growth Copy Share Image
“There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Ambition Copy Share Image
“The idea of “the free development of personality” seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Individual personality Copy Share Image
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Dungeons Copy Share Image
“An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Atheist Copy Share Image
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows,… — Nicolas Gomez Davila Age Copy Share Image
“The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Humanity Copy Share Image
“The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions. Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward. When they interrogate… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Books Copy Share Image
“The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Amor Copy Share Image
“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Politics Copy Share Image
“Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Adversity Copy Share Image
“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Human rights Copy Share Image
“La revolución es progresista y busca el robustecimiento del estado; la rebelión es reaccionaria y busca su desvanecimiento. El revolucionario es un… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Revolution Copy Share Image
“Now, even though it be neither necessity nor caprice, history, for the authentic reactionary, is not, for all that, an interior dialectic… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Freedom Copy Share Image
“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Poetry Copy Share Image
“There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Diploma Copy Share Image
“Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Consequences Copy Share Image
“Every individual with “ideals” is a potential murderer.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Ideals Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Humanizing Copy Share Image
“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Communion Copy Share Image
“Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Truth Copy Share Image
“Leveling is the barbarian’s substitute for order.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Barbarian Copy Share Image
“The 'wheel of fortune' is a better analogy for history than the 'evolution of humanity.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Analogy Copy Share Image
“The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Indoctrinate Copy Share Image
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Ability Copy Share Image
“Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man’s goals, but the names he gives to his goals.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Goals Copy Share Image
