Either man has rights, or the people is sovereign. The
simultaneous assertion of two mutually exclusive theses is what people have
called liberalism.
Liberalism proclaims the right of the individual to degrade
oneself, provided one’s degradation does not impede the degradation of one’s
neighbor.
Modern liberalism no longer defends any of the “rights of
man” except the right to consume.
Today’s conservatives are nothing more than liberals who
have been ill-treated by democracy.
Tolerance consists of a firm decision to allow them to
insult everything we seek to love and respect, as long as they do not threaten
our material comforts. Modern, liberal, democratic, progressive man, as long as
they do not step on his calluses, will let them degrade his soul.
A small sample of the aphorisms of Columbian reactionary Nicolas Gomez Davila
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