Quotes from Leftism Revisited — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
1909–1999 Austria
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Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen.
Leftism Revisited (1990)
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
Leftism Revisited (1990)
In the last two hundred years the exploitation of envy—its mobilization among the masses—coupled with the denigration of individuals, but more frequently of classes, races, nations, or religious communities, has been the key to political success.
Leftism Revisited (1990)
Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be “monks and nuns,” but the standard reply is, “prisoners.” And inevitably this conjures up citizens of the Provider State who have protection from the “cradle to the grave.”
Leftism Revisited (1990)