Quotes of the Centuries

Below are quotes, sayings or excerpts which you may or may not derive interest and wisdom from. Indulge...

'Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.'
-John Maynard Keynes

'Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.'
-from the poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay', by Robert Frost

'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

'Sleep is good, death is better;
but of course, the best thing
would to have never been born at all.'
-Heinrich Heine

'The vaccine was not brought in for Covid. Covid was brought in for the vaccine. Once you realize that, everything else makes sense.'
-Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

'The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control... Do I mean conspiracy?
Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.'
-Larry P. McDonald, U.S. Congressman, 1976. McDonald was killed on September 1, 1983 in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets. From 'Introduction' to the Rockefeller File, by Gary Allen, 1975

'From the four elements a being was produced, whose body produced the constituents of the universe, and from whose decomposing corpse came worms, which eventually became human beings.'
-Christianity Before Christ, Chinese creation myth, pg. 22, by John G. Jackson, 1985

'But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?'
-Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

'War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide for yourself.'
-Benjamin Franklin.

'I sometimes made huge mistakes. But what actually is a mistake in politics? And when I look back, I have only one sentiment: an enormous regret. Regret that we did not succeed, that we were not able to create this European world which would be the master of the universe for all time, which made the white race the first race, with the great mastery of the spirit. And when we see what there is on the other side, what 30 years of the others’ victory has given, this anarchy in the world, this rout of the white world, this desertion throughout the universe; when we see in our own countries the decay of morals, the fall of the fatherland, the fall of the family, the fall of social order; when we see this appetite for material goods which has replaced the great flame of the ideal which animated us, well then, truly, between the two we chose the right side. The small, miserable Europe of today, of this impoverished Common Market, cannot give happiness to men. Consumer society poisons humanity rather than elevating it. So, for our part, we dreamed of something great, and we have only one desire, that this spirit be reborn. And with all my might, up to the last moment of my existence, I will fight for this. So that what was our struggle and our martyrdom, will one day be the resurrection.'
-Léon Degrelle

'Hell is truth seen too late.'
-Thomas Hobbes.

'About the painted temple, peacocks flew, the blue doves cooed from every well, far off the village drums beat for some marriage-feast; all things spoke peace and plenty and the Prince saw and rejoiced. But, looking deep, he saw the thorns which grow upon this rose of life: How the swart peasant sweated for his wage, toiling for leave to live; and how he urged the great-eyed oxen through the flaming hours, goading their velvet flanks: then marked he, too, how lizard fed on ant, and snake on him, and kite on both; and how the fish-hawk robbed the fish-tiger of that which it had seized; the shrike chasing the bulbul, which did chase the jeweled butterlflies; till everywhere each slew a slayer and in turn was slain, life living upon death. So the fair show veiled one vast, savage, grim conspiracy of mutual murder, from the worm of man, who himself killed his fellow.'
-The Light of Asia, Sir Edwin Arnold, pgs. 28-29, (c)1879.
This was speaking of the Buddha, who went out into the world to teach and found much evil everywhere.

'The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a political structure is a subconcious wish or desire to perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood.
Simply put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat them on the head, kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and tell them that everything will be alright when they wake up in the morning.
This public demand is incredible, so the human god, the politician, meets incredibility with incredibility by promsing the world and delivering nothing. So who is the bigger liar? The public? Or the 'godfather'?
This public behavior is surrender born of fear, laziness, and expediency. It is the basis of the welfare state as a strategic weapon, useful against a disgusting public.'
-Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, published by The Booktree, (c)2018 edition, pg. 50-51.

'Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.'
-Theodore Dalrymple.

'In the whole vast domain of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom. As soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom, you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die, and how many are killed. But from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A power of violence at once hidden and palpable … has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. Thus there are insects of prey, reptiles of prey, birds of prey, fishes of prey, quadrupeds of prey. There is no instant of time when one creature is not being devoured by another. Over all these numerous races of animals man is placed, and his destructive hand spares nothing that lives. He kills to obtain food and he kills to clothe himself. He kills to adorn himself, he kills in order to attack, and he kills in order to defend himself. He kills to instruct himself and he kills to amuse himself. He kills to kill. Proud and terrible king, he wants everything and nothing resists him.

From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound ... from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child - his table is covered with corpses ... And who in all of this will exterminate him who exterminates all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man ... So it is accomplished ... the first law of the violent destruction of living creatures. The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.'
-Joseph de Maistre, philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat, from 'St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence'.

'The decay of our culture,
these mounds of contamination of our whole cultural life,
the decomposition of our literature,
the poisoning of our theaters, of our movies,
all the art is now falling for it.

Millions of Germans do not participate any more.
It does not appeal to them any more.
This art was not born from our people.
It is alien to us and will remain alien.
It has nothing to do with the western character and did not come from our soul.
It was imposed on us by our subversive press which has made it palatable.

And parallel to this already the assault against the education of our children's brains.
The tearing out of all the memories of our proud past.
The insult to all our great men and people,
the removal of its memory from the heart and the brain,
and out of our youth and with it a large defilement of our history.

Nothing of what was once great,
nothing of what helped create this great nation,
to make it strong, was spared from these corroding and corrosive attacks.
Everything is demolished starting from the symbols of the past,
from the cockades and flags to the great men of our history.'
-Adolf Hitler, speaking at the Berlin Sportpalast, 1933.

'By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial... Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.'
-Aldous Huxley, 1958.

'The best that man can attain is a heroic life, such as is lived by one who struggles against overwhelming odds in some way and in some affair that will benefit the whole of mankind, and who, in the end, triumphs -- although he obtains a poor reward, or none at all.'
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paraliponena, vol. II, section 172a, 322, ©1974.

' My orders are to fight;
Then if I bleed, or fail,
Or strongly win, what matters it?
God only doth prevail.

The servant craveth naught
Except to serve with might.
I was not told to win or lose, --
My orders are to fight.'
-My Orders, Canadian Poetess Ethelwyn Wetherald.

' If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but God.'
-Saint John Chrysostom.

'We are forerunners of a new time, and even if many or all of us should no longer experience it, we will nonetheless be able to say at our end: we have lived and it was beautiful to live and to fight...'
-Alfred Rosenberg.

'palm leaves

at exactly twelve o’clock midnight
1973-74
Los Angeles
it began to rain on the
palm leaves outside my window
the horns and firecrackers
went off
and it thundered.

I’d gone to bed at 9 p.m.
turned out the lights
pulled up the covers –
their gaiety, their happiness
their screams, their paper hats,
their automobiles, their women,
their amateur drunks...

New Year’s Eve always terrifies me

life knows nothing of years.

now the horns have stopped and
the firecrackers and the thunder...
it’s all over in five minutes...
all I hear is the rain
on the palm leaves,
and I think,
I will never understand men,
but I have lived
it through.'
-Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame (1974).

'It's not hard to be brave when you're in a room full of cowards.'
-Louis Beam.

'The New American Patriot will be neither left nor right, just a freeman fighting for liberty.
...Soon there will be millions in this country of every political persuasion confronting the police state in streets throughout America.
...Wake up and smell the tear gas. Freedom is calling its sons and daughters.'
-Louis Beam, from a 1999 essay called 'New World Order'.

'No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.'
-Prometheus Unbound, Shelley, 1820.

'We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

[...]

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.'
-T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (in part), 1925.

'He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.'
-Aeschylus

'A reaction against the Judaification of our culture is now building momentum among the common man.
That movement is hardly perceptible today, but it is going to grow like an avalanche.
That movement would be irresistable at this very moment if it weren't lacking a leader.'
-George Ratzinger, 1892. That leader, of course, was Adolf Hitler, who at the time was only three years old. The world would have to wait for its savior, just as we are waiting now.

'Wake and listen, you that are lonely! From the future come winds with secret wing-beats; and good tidings are proclaimed to delicate ears. You that are lonely today, you that are withdrawing, you shall one day be the people: out of you, you have chosen yourselves, there shall grow a chosen people -- and out of them, the overman. Verily, the earth shall yet become a site of recovery. And even now a new fragrance surrounds it, bringing salvation -- and a new hope.'
-Friedrich Nietzsche.

'It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those shadows men get lost.'
-Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks, pgs. 212-213, by John G. Neihardt, ©1932.

'Flouride is good for your teeth? That's why government puts it in your brain?
Let's put Oil of Olay in the drinking water so we will have lovely soft skin too. Why just stop at one crackpot idea?'
-Thomas Sheridan.

'...sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in.'
-Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense, ©1986/2002, pg140.

'Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.'
-Saul Alinsky.

'When they ran out of tanks they used guns, when they ran out of bullets they used knives and bare hands. They never ran out of courage but in the end they ran out of time.'
-Führer Karl Dönitz, May 1, 1945, during radio address to the nation, discussing the end of the Battle for Berlin.

'The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.'
-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, ©1992.

'The only solution for bad and violent people are good people that are more skilled in violence.'
-Japanese Bushido samurai code.

'Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.'
-Ted Kaczynski.

'A slave who does not realize he is in chains will never seek to free himself.'
-Ursula Haverbeck, 91 years old, imprisoned numerous times for questioning the holocaust.

'A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them. Which would include their own government.'
-General George Washington, 1st president of the United States.

'The great illusion of our days is that democracy and liberalism are the antithesis of communism...
This illusion is like saying that a diluted poison is the antithesis of the same poison in its pure and concentrated form.'
-Julius Evola.

'Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.'
-Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

'TELL EVERYONE

Let everyone say to himself
in the depths of his heart,
every minute:
When I am weak, my people are weak.
When I am a hypocrite, my people are hypocrites.
When I fail, my people fail.
When I abandon my people, I abandon myself.
When I oppose my people, I oppose myself.
Losing courage and initiative
means losing your life,
means betraying your father and mother,
your children and grandchildren.

There is only one way
against war: war!
against weapons: weapons!
against the enemy's bravery: his own bravery!
and against misfortune: the spirit of sacrifice.
Against the hatred of the world, the only help,
is the love of our people,
ready to make any sacrifice.

The weakness of the heart devours everything around it like rot,
as among the fruits,
where one apple spoils the others.
What you allow yourself, your neighbor also allows himself.
When you cheat, he cheats too.
When you complain, he complains too.
When you gossip, he gossips about you too.
And when one of us finally betrays,
everyone betrays himself.

We call for justice.
But you have to earn your fate too.
He who is unworthy reaps indignity,
the one who is courageous the courage,
the best the best.
And even when the gods refuse their help,
the right man still gets their blessing.

All life is dangerous.
You don't just die in a fire.
Every mother risks her blood for the life of her child,
perpetuating his people.

To preserve life
all risk their lives,
some for themselves, their hunger,
their own necessity,
others for many,
and one man for all:
the hero on the battlefield.
He grants life to all. He lives in them.
By his death
eternal laurels crown his sleep
survives the homeland.

What has taken place, remains active, the good and the bad.
Let no one believe
that he might be hiding something,
and secretly do evil.
What is healthy begets healthy,
the rotten the rotten.

Nothing can betray us-except our own mouth.
Nothing can lose us-except our own hearts.
Nothing can strike us-except our own hand.
No one can deliver us-except ourselves.'
-Wil Vesper, SS Notebook No. 9., 1944.
The SS Order-Ethics & Ideology, by Edwige Thibaut, pgs. 250 - 252.

'Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.'
-Jean Raspail.

'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.
'So do I,' said Gandalf,
'and so do all who live to see such times.
But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.

'A farmer whose sons were always quarreling tried to persuade them to mend their ways, but found that no words made any impression on them. So he decided to give them a lesson. He made them bring a bundle of sticks, and started by giving them the bundle as it was and telling them to break the sticks. Try as they would, they could not. Then he untied the bundle and handed them the sticks one at a time, so that they could break them easily. "It will be the same with you, my children," he said. "As long as you agree together no enemy can overcome you; if you quarrel, you will fall an easy prey."
Divided, men are vulnerable; it is union that makes them strong.'
-Aesop. That bundle of sticks is called a 'fasces' -- the symbol of fascism.

'The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.'
-African proverb.

'I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.'
-Voltaire

'Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided in me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.'
-Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States.

'WHY ARE WE NATIONAL SOCIALISTS?

[Because] we stand up for our people's right to exist in this world, which must be fought for.
The blood of the multitude of our racial comrades [Volksgenossen] can only be pledged to this task if they know that the struggle doesn't serve one particular class,
but that it benefits our people as a whole... The day will come when the German people rise up and shatter its fetters asunder,
when in millions of hearts there will be this one single belief and all-encompassing conviction.
We do not fight for the German middle class, nor for the German proletariat; we fight for our people, for wife and child, for our children's children!
That's what makes us National Socialists!'
-Adolf Hitler, 9th April 1927. Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism 1923-1943

'If you are happy with Monday night football, aerobics classes, an evening of wine and cheese at The Pointe, Club Med vacations or any of the other trinkets afforded fat, complacent and willing whores, then depart from us in peace at this time. Continue to lick the boots of your masters and perform the other duties of a prostitute. But know that you are an enemy of those who count freedom above comfort. We who love liberty more than security seek no quarrel with any man. But, neither will we wear chains of subjugation. Take our weapons and we will take your life. Take warning, the line has been drawn. If blood is to be shed, let it begin here. Should the flames of violence consume us, history will mark for future generations the courage and passing of free men. If the Almighty grants an undeserving people mercy once again before the light flickers into darkness, free men and women will take their weapons in hand, place the point of the sword against the throat of the enemy and no quarter shall be given.'
-Maynard C. Campbell, Jr., Kingdoms at War - The Second North American Revolution, pg. 24.

'Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.'
-James Madison, Federalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51.
Madison was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the fourth President (1809–1817).
He was considered to be the "Father of the Constitution" and was in fact the principal author of the document.
In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, which is still the most influential commentary on the Constitution.