"People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on……" — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
"People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives."
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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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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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More Bent Quotes
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
— Robert Browning
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused…
— Kurt Cobain
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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
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