A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hands of man, even when he fashions and defends the noblest civilization, must… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share
It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting,… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“Marxist cults are both a culmination of the evolution of Christianity and a most impressive instance of the historical and social phenomenon that is… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight. — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater antithesis than between the Greeks’ rational and objective truth and the "truth of unreason," as Bertrand Russell aptly termed… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
