Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila Download Open image ““Leveling is the barbarian’s substitute for order.”” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The levelling process is the victory of abstraction over the individual. The levelling process in modern times, corresponds, in reflection, to fate in antiquity.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.” — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.” — Ross Laidlaw Copy Share Image
“I do not fear that the barbarians shall invade, but that we should become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Charles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“You have to descend to the valley of humility to climb to heights of character.” — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
“Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.” — Mustafa Saifuddin Copy Share Image
“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila 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 not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 government official;… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 a positive… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 de las… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
