"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a……" — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic."
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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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10 Quotes by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free…
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Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a…
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Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings…
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People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation…
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Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic;…
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For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for…
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It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably…
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Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by…
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Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to…
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