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Of course empire works. Conquest works. It has worked for the entire course of human history. It is not only effective, it is profitable.

— Curtis Yarvin

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It is much easier to delude others if at the same time you delude yourself.

No one ever achieved power by promising to enslave his followers.

The New York Times could print nothing but lies for a year, and it would still be the most powerful institution in the world.

The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.

Reaction is the reconstruction or restoration of the civilized mind, through political power, from any form of progressive or revolutionary degradation.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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