Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Civilization 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… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Life 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… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Freedom 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… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Politics Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Modern man 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… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Human rights 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… — 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 Community Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Truth Copy Share Image
“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Communion Copy Share Image
“An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Love Copy Share Image
The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that… — Nicolas Gomez Davila Coherence Copy Share Image
“Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Growth Copy Share Image
“Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The idea of “the free development of personality” seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Individual Copy Share Image
“To deny that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila History Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Jealousy Copy Share Image
“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Respect Copy Share Image
“The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions. Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward. When they interrogate… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Intelligent man Copy Share Image
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Church Copy Share Image
“Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Charity Copy Share Image
