"Only a person with convictions has a genuine……" — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
"Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil."
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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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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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Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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