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“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”
― Meister Eckhart

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
― Jacques Derrida, Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin

“If you are in favour of global liberal hegemony, you are the enemy.”
― Alexander Dugin

“Nobody at any time is cut off from God.”
― Meister Eckhart

“bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“What we are against will unite us, while what we are for divides us. Therefore, we should emphasise what we oppose. The common enemy unites us, while the positive values each of us are defending actually divides us. Therefore, we must create strategic alliances to overthrow the present order of things, of which the core could be described as human rights, anti-hierarchy, and political correctness – everything that is the face of the Beast, the anti-Christ or, in other terms, Kali-Yuga.”
― Alexander Dugin

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“There are secularised cultures, but at the core of all of them, the spirit of Tradition remains, religious or otherwise. By defending the multiplicity, plurality and polycentrism of cultures, we are making an appeal to the principles of their essences, which we can only find in the spiritual traditions. But we try to link this attitude to the necessity for social justice and the freedom of differing societies in the hope for better political regimes. The idea is to join the spirit of Tradition with the desire for social justice. And we don’t want to oppose them, because that is the main strategy of hegemonic power: to divide Left and Right, to divide cultures, to divide ethnic groups, East and West, Muslims and Christians. We invite Right and Left to unite, and not to oppose traditionalism and spirituality, social justice and social dynamism. So we are not on the Right or on the Left. We are against liberal postmodernity. Our idea is to join all the fronts and not let them divide us. When we stay divided, they can rule us safely. If we are united, their rule will immediately end. That is our global strategy. And when we try to join the spiritual tradition with social justice, there is an immediate panic among liberals. They fear this very much.”
― Alexander Dugin

“Sooner or later the endless spectacle is over. Then we will take revenge; mercilessly.”
― Alexander Dugin

“Why didn't you bang the sides of the tank? Why didn't you say anything?”
― Ghassan Kanafani

“A ONU que não representa uma instituição do multipolarismo na forma pura pode cumprir –temporária e pragmaticamente – uma função defensiva através de opor mecanicamente essas tendências através da sua própria estrutura. Os EUA percebem isto perfeitamente quando expõe à ONU as críticas ainda mais fortes, ridicularizando sua inabilidade e incapacidade, repreendendo-a por recursos devastadores apropriados para seus limites e abonos antigos, etc. Os apoiadores da ordem do mundo multipolar podem muito bem utilizar a ONU como uma tela em tal caso para organizar mais instituições efetivas do multipolarismo. Tomando a ONU como uma forma da ordem cessante do mundo que sobrevive nas sombras de sua gradual decadência como até agora prolongando sua graduação tão longe quanto possível, se pode tentar colocar a fundação das novas instituições legais dentro dos limites antigos.”
― Alexander Dugin, Geopolítica do Mundo Multipolar

“After all, in the final analysis, man is a cause.”
― Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories

“A sociedade normal é aquela onde os povos, nações e estados são mantidos como formas tradicionais de comunidade humana, como as formas criadas, criados pela história e tradição. Eles podem mudar ou se transformar, mas eles não devem ser abolidos ou mesclados forçadamente em um único caldeirão global. A diversidade de povos e nações é um tesouro histórico da humanidade. Abolindo isso, iremos para a abolição da história, para o fim do casamento plural, liberdade e riqueza cultural. Os processos de globalização devem ser imediatamente cortados.”
― Alexander Dugin, Geopolítica do Mundo Multipolar

“The path that humanity entered upon in the modern era led precisely to liberalism and to the repudiation of God, tradition, community, ethnicity, empires and kingdoms. Such a path is tread entirely logically: having decided to liberate itself from everything that keeps man in check, the man of the modern era reached his logical apogee: before our eyes he is liberated from himself. The logic of world liberalism and globalisation pulls us into the abyss of postmodern dissolution and virtuality. Our youth already have one foot in it: the codes of liberal globalism are effectively introduced on an unconscious level — through habits, commercials, glamour, technology, the media, celebrities. The usual phenomenon now is the loss of identity, and already not simply only national or cultural identity, but even sexual, and soon enough even human identity.”
― Alexander Dugin, The Fourth Political Theory

“Esses espetáculos que vemos hoje nas chamadas "revoluções coloridas" não têm nada de revolucionário genuíno em si mesmo. Eles são organizados pela oligarquia mundial, são preparados e apoiados por suas redes. As "revoluções coloridas" são quase sempre dirigidas contra as sociedades ou os regimes políticos, que ativa ou passivamente resistem à oligarquia global, desafiam seus interesses, que tentam manter certa independência de sua política, estratégia, assuntos regionais e economia. Assim, as "revoluções coloridas" ocorrem de forma seletiva, baseando-se em redes de comunicação de massa desenvolvidas pela elite globalista. Trata-se de uma paródia da revolução e servem apenas fins contrarrevolucionários.”
― Alexander Dugin, Geopolítica do Mundo Multipolar

“The subject of Communism was class. Fascism’s subject was the state, in Italian Fascism under Mussolini, or race in Hitler’s National Socialism. In liberalism, the subject was represented by the individual, freed from all forms of collective identity and any ‘membership’ (l’appartenance). While the ideological struggle had formal opponents, entire nations and societies, at least theoretically, were able to select their subject of choice — that of class, racism or statism, or individualism. The victory of liberalism resolved this question: the individual became the normative subject within the framework of all mankind. This is when the phenomenon of globalisation entered the stage, the model of a post-industrial society makes itself known, and the postmodern era begins. From now on, the individual subject is no longer the result of choice, but is a kind of mandatory given. Man is freed from his ‘membership’ in a community and from any collective identity,”
― Alexander Dugin, The Fourth Political Theory

“Aquilo que os americanos chamam de "progresso", a "democratização", "desenvolvimento" e "civilização" é de fato uma degradação, colonização, degeneração, degenerescência e uma forma paradoxal peculiar da ditadura liberal. Não é exagero dizer que os Estados Unidos como um bastião do liberalismo militante, é uma encarnação visível de todo o mal que assola a humanidade hoje, é um mecanismo poderoso que constantemente leva a humanidade à catástrofe final. Esse é o império do mal absoluto. E os reféns e vítimas do curso desastroso desse império não são apenas todas as outras nações, mas também os americanos comuns, não diferentes do resto das conquistadas, espoliadas, privadas e perseguidas nações de abate.”
― Alexander Dugin, Geopolítica do Mundo Multipolar

“The only way to be pardoned by the races violently abused and reduced to slavery - whites, blacks, yellows and browns included -- is to repent the Modernity, capitalism and all three main eurocentric and colonialist political theories - starting from liberalism (main evil) and communism and fascism as well. Real life matters, not this abhorrent and mean liberal simulacrum. The life should not be black. Without identity every life will be senseless and "black". Meaningful lives matter. It is the Modernity and capitalism that should be killed. Otherwise it will continue and in much worse way as before. Death to the System!”
― Alexander Dugin

“History is local. A shared sense of history is possible only on the basis of the domination of one society over another, and imposing its own history and, thus, its identity on the enslaved one.”
― Alexander Dugin, The Fourth Political Theory

“The very principle of democracy is founded on the possibility of making alternative choices. There is no longer a need for democracy, since ideology made the idea that "there is no alternative" acceptable. Adherence to a meta-social principle of superior rationality allows for the elimination of the necessity and possibility of choosing. The so-called principle of the rationality of "markets" exactly fills this function in the ideology of obsolescent capitalism. Democratic practice is thus emptied of all content in the way is open to what I have called "low-intensity democracy" - that is, to electoral buffooneries where parades of majorettes take the place of programs, to the society of the spectacle. Delegitimized by these practices, politics is undone, begins to drift and loses its potential power to give meaning and coherence to alternative societal projects.”
― Samir Amin

“Myth does not belong to the past!" ..." Sacred dimension is always here.,”
― Alexander Dugin

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Either our political struggle is soteriological and eschatological, or it is meaningless.”
― Alexander Dugin

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
― Spinoza

“Undoubtedly racist is the idea of unipolar globalization. It is based on the fact that Western, especially American, society equates its history and its values to universal law and artifcially tries to con- struct a global society based on these local and historically specific values – democracy, the market, parliamentarianism, capitalism, individualism, human rights, and unlimited technological development. These values are local, and globalization is trying to impose them onto all of humanity as something that is universal and taken for granted. This attempt implicitly argues that the values of all other peoples and cultures are imperfect, underdeveloped, and are subject to modernization and standardization based on the Western model.
Globalization is thus nothing more than a globally deployed model of Western European, or, rather, Anglo-Saxon ethnocentrism, which is the purest manifestation of racist ideology.”
― Alexander Dugin, The Fourth Political Theory