Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still … - Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.

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It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

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"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 nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

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Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.

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Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

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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.

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