“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 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 Copy Share Image
“Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 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 Copy Share Image
Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 government official;… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 a positive… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 de las… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.” — Nicólas Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
