Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realit… - Revilo P. Oliver
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realit…
- Revilo P. Oliver
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to th… - Revilo P. Oliver
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to th…
Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a thing should ask… - Revilo P. Oliver
Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a thing should ask…
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight. - Revilo P. Oliver
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.
It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and mu… - Revilo P. Oliver
It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and mu…
As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their fami… - Revilo P. Oliver
As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their fami…
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set… - Revilo P. Oliver
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set…
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hand… - Revilo P. Oliver
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hand…
As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article … - Revilo P. Oliver
As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article …
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