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born 1943 France

Alain de Benoist (born 11 December 1943), also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and multiple dozen other pen names, is a French political philosopher and journalist, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite (France's New Right), and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.

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Also known as: Beyond Human Rights, The Problem of Democracy

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Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.

Manifesto for a European Renaissance (2005)

Yahweh would have preferred that man had not emerged from “nature.”

On Being a Pagan (2004)

Alone of all the animals, man’s actions are not predicated by his membership in a species.

On Being a Pagan (2004)

Those nations on the way to disbelief are on the path to abdication.

On Being a Pagan (2004)

In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.

Beyond Human Rights. Defending Freedoms (2011)

"One can have a society without God,” writes Régis Debray, “but there cannot be a society without religion.”

On Being a Pagan (2004)

Fraternity, therefore, can serve as the basis for both solidarity and social justice, for both patriotism and democratic participation.

The Problem of Democracy (2011)

The promotion of ‘average’ individual causes a general levelling down.

The Problem of Democracy (2011)

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

The Problem of Democracy (2011)

In fact Yahweh is none other than the God who says “enough.” The Law he issues is meant as limitation. The Covenant he concludes symbolically seals this castration.

On Being a Pagan (2004)

Paganism sacralizes and thereby exalts this world whereas Judeo-Christian monotheism sanctifies and thereby retreats from this world. Paganism is based on the idea of the sacred.

On Being a Pagan (2004)

Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion posed arbitrarily.

Beyond Human Rights. Defending Freedoms (2011)

The world only hides one thing, says Clément Rosset, and that is that it has nothing to hide. It is sufficient onto itself for its own unveiling. Meaning only appears as the result of the representations and interpretations man may give to it.

On Being a Pagan (2004)

As man has managed to turn himself into a player of the world, the sole thing that can now prevent him from using all his possibilities of playing, is to make him believe that he did not invent the rules of the game.

On Being a Pagan (2004)

Contrary to what is all too often claimed, voters do not wish the men they have elected to be in their image. Voters love greatness and are capable of recognizing it. They love courage, even when they personally lack it.

The Problem of Democracy (2011)

Yahweh accepts that man has a history, but he strives to neutralize it by giving it a purpose, which is precisely the return to the pre-historical state of paradisiacal “innocence.” (Yahweh only accepts history in order to assign it an end.)

On Being a Pagan (2004)

In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his “salvation” by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely “subservient to God” (Romans 6:22).

On Being a Pagan (2004)

Faith and science thus find themselves reconciled, not in the way of the scholastic, who claims to prove the reality of his dogmatic propositions by means of universal reason, but by the assertion of the overall oneness of the real that has no double or reflection.

On Being a Pagan (2004)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alain de Benoist (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.