“In Catholic countries we saw (and sometimes still see) a large number of illiterates side by side with an intellectual élite of high standards. The Protestant goal of education is usually one of good averages- the optimum for a democracy.… — 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… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
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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