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Academic politics is a murky and brutal game, and a small finger on the scales can steer it quite effectively, especially over time.

— 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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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.

Benito Mussolini

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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