Community Quote by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

“It’s inescapable – we live in a world where what’s seen as successful, fashionable or beautiful is heavily shaped by a power base with…

— Francesca Martínez

“We feel that we are at the point of attaining autonomy as we imitate our models of power and prestige. This autonomy, however, is…

— René Girard

“In attempting to uphold scarcity, toil, poverty and subjugation against the growing potential for post-scarcity, leisure, abundance and freedom, capitalism increasingly emerges as the…

— Murray Bookchin

“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they…

— Jacob Needleman

“The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of…

— Adolf Loos

“A conscious effort has to be made to sustain laws, customs, procedures and manners, otherwise the social order would quickly collapse.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend this into…

— Walter Lippmann

“Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as…

— Obama

If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety…

— James Hutton

“The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything…

— René Guénon

“With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the…

— Oscar Wilde