Alain de Benoist

“One can have a society without God,” writes Régis Debray, “but there cannot be a society without religion.” He adds, “Those nations…

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“Contrary to what is all too often claimed, voters do not wish the men they have elected to be in their image.…

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“Yahweh would have preferred that man had not emerged from “nature.” This is the meaning of the story told in the first…

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“There is no need to ”believe” in Jupiter or Wotan—something that is no more ridiculous then believing in Yahweh however—to be pagan.…

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“Faith and science thus find themselves reconciled, not in the way of the scholastic, who claims to prove the reality of his…

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“As man has managed to turn himself into a player of the world, the sole thing that can now prevent him from…

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“For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than…

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“If all men are brothers outside of any specifically human paradigm then no one can truly be a brother. The institution of…

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“As only God has an absolute value, everything that is not God can have only relative value. To be created means that…

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“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.”

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“Yahweh accepts that man has a history, but he strives to neutralize it by giving it a purpose, which is precisely the…

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Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining…

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“The opposite concept of the Latin religio should be sought in the Latin verb negligere. To be religious is synonymous with responsibility,…

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“The martyr is the exact opposite of the pagan hero personified in the Greek and Germanic heroes … For the pagan hero,…

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“Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion…

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“Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the…

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“Paganism sacralizes and thereby exalts this world whereas Judeo-Christian monotheism sanctifies and thereby retreats from this world. Paganism is based on the…

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The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of…

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“When it comes to specifying the values particular to paganism, people have generally listed features such as these: an eminently aristocratic conception…

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A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The…

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“In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He…

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Beware the god who cannot laugh.

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“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.”

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“The promotion of ‘average’ individual causes a general levelling down.”

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“The world only hides on thing, says Clément Rosset, and that is that it has nothing to hide. It is sufficient onto…

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