Quote by Alain de Benoist Download Open image ““The promotion of ‘average’ individual causes a general levelling down.”” — Alain de Benoist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
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It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average? — Urban Meyer Copy Share Image
“You’ve gotta work hard to stay on top, and when you stop wanting to work hard, you just become average. That happens to anyone.” — Joe Layden Copy Share Image
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“We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.” — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
Levelling at its maximum is like the stillness of death, where one can hear one's own heartbeat, a stillness like death, into which nothing can penetrate, in which everything sinks, powerless. One person can head a rebellion, but one person cannot head this levelling process, for that would make him a leader and he would avoid being levelled. Each individual… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“when it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has… — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing wrong with ambition, Sherry. Nobody wants to be average. Hell, average is easy. Going above and beyond—now that’s hard. That takes work.… — Lotchie Burton Copy Share Image
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“One can have a society without God,” writes Régis Debray, “but there cannot be a society without religion.” He adds, “Those nations on the… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what is all too often claimed, voters do not wish the men they have elected to be in their image. Voters love… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Yahweh would have preferred that man had not emerged from “nature.” This is the meaning of the story told in the first chapters of… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“There is no need to ”believe” in Jupiter or Wotan—something that is no more ridiculous then believing in Yahweh however—to be pagan. Contemporary paganism… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Faith and science thus find themselves reconciled, not in the way of the scholastic, who claims to prove the reality of his dogmatic propositions… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“As man has managed to turn himself into a player of the world, the sole thing that can now prevent him from using all… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than culture whose… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“If all men are brothers outside of any specifically human paradigm then no one can truly be a brother. The institution of a symbolically… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“As only God has an absolute value, everything that is not God can have only relative value. To be created means that one’s being… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.” — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Yahweh accepts that man has a history, but he strives to neutralize it by giving it a purpose, which is precisely the return to… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
