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> [We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us. It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/we-should-avoid-being-backward-looking-concerned-with-restoration-and/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

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> [We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/we-are-standing-face-to-face-with-the-barbarians-the-enemy-is-no/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

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## More by Guillaume Faye

> [“What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/what-we-strive-to-restore-and-re-animate-will-never-come-from-the/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

> [The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/the-present-dominant-values-xenophilia-cosmopolitanism-narcissistic/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

> [Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/today-it-is-not-a-matter-of-conserving-the-present-or-returning-to-a/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

> [We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/we-should-avoid-being-backward-looking-concerned-with-restoration-and/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

> [“We fight for a vision of the world that is both traditional and Faustian, that allies enrootment and disinstallation, the citizen’s freedom and imperial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/we-fight-for-a-vision-of-the-world-that-is-both-traditional-and/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

> [In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/in-a-society-that-considers-all-genuine-ideas-subversive-which-seeks/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

> [“It’s necessary that everyone does his duty and works in his place - devotes himself to constructing a body of fundamental values - against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/it-s-necessary-that-everyone-does-his-duty-and-works-in-his-place/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

> [We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/we-are-standing-face-to-face-with-the-barbarians-the-enemy-is-no/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

> [“Our future shall not consist of networks, but of blocs whose very essence shall be of an ethnic nature. We are heading towards a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-faye/our-future-shall-not-consist-of-networks-but-of-blocs-whose-very/)

[Guillaume Faye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-faye/)

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