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A Revolution is nothing other than the replacement of one given type of Authority with another.

— Alexandre Kojève The Notion of Authority (2020)

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It is from Eternity that the representatives of God on earth derive their Authority.

The Notion of Authority (2020)

Obviously, absolute Authority in the strong sense of the word is never realised in fact. Only God is held to possess it.

The Notion of Authority (2020)

There has to be a risk of the death sentence in order for 'mastery' to exist.

The Notion of Authority (2020)

In all times and ages, political crimes have always been punished more severely than others – even in the degenerate State of Nicholas II. The fact that in modern 'democracies' we lean towards political clemency proves only one thing: the loss of any sense of the 'political' in general.

The Notion of Authority (2020)

The Authority of the 'man of the moment' pertains to the fact that it is he, par excellence, who represents 'actuality', the Present, the 'real presence' of something in the world (Hegel's Gegenwart), as opposed to the 'poetic' unreality of the past and the 'utopian' unreality of the future.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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