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 Copy Share Image
Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect” — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“The state has an "annexationist" character tending toward centralization and the development of a Provider State. We must uphold the principle of subsidiarity. Action… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“If there is no personal God,everything is permissablel, and if God exists,everthing is possible.” — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of the Jews and the Nazis, the Armenians and the young Turks, the old Russian regime, the Kerensky interlude and bolshevism, Portuguese colonial rule in Angola and the horrors perpetrated by savage monsters of Holden Roberto’s “Liberation Front,” the… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“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,… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“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… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
[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… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
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