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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.

— Alain de Benoist The Problem of Democracy (2011)

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

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

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

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

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

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