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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/modifying-clausewitz-aphorism-war-is-the-continuation-of-diplomacy-by/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

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## More by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

> [“For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/for-the-genuine-materialist-there-is-no-fundamental-but-only-a/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [“The state has an "annexationist" character tending toward centralization and the development of a Provider State. We must uphold the principle of subsidiarity. Action…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/the-state-has-an-annexationist-character-tending-toward/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/sometime-in-the-coming-century-people-will-rack-their-brains/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/for-the-average-person-all-problems-date-to-world-war-ii-for-the-more/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [“If there is no personal God,everything is permissablel, and if God exists,everthing is possible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/if-there-is-no-personal-god-everything-is-permissablel-and-if-god/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of the Jews…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/there-was-no-more-reasonable-sequitur-between-provocation-and/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/fifty-one-percent-of-a-nation-can-establish-a-totalitarian-regime/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/who-is-secure-in-all-his-basic-needs-who-has-work-spiritual-care/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/to-accuse-nations-not-leaders-or-governments-is-the-hallmark-of-the/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/modifying-clausewitz-aphorism-war-is-the-continuation-of-diplomacy-by/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/people-are-rarely-diabolic-or-bent-enthusiastically-on-evil-as-a-rule/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [ \[T\]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/t-he-democratic-principle-of-one-man-one-vote-viewed-against-a/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [“There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-historical-fatality-there-is-only-a/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [“As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and 1920 Jews…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/as-a-form-of-neurosis-race-conscious-nationalism-almost-always/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

> [“In Catholic countries we saw (and sometimes still see) a large number of illiterates side by side with an intellectual élite of high standards.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/in-catholic-countries-we-saw-and-sometimes-still-see-a-large-number/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

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