Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people …

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of med…

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then…

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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.

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their …

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could ha…

- Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn