The Devil's Pleasure Palace Quotes

“For Satan, as for Marx, religion was an impediment to the grand design of transforming humanity from a collection of free-willed, autonomous individuals into a mass of self-corralling slaves who mistake security for liberty and try to keep the cognitive dissonance to a minimum in order to function.”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“As Orwell predicted in 1984, sloganeering eventually must replace free inquiry if the System is to survive and prosper; there can be not even a single ray of light in the darkness, lest the people glimpse the truth.”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“The truth will out: The people are being governed by a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight for! — Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“We consider the civilization of the ancient Greeks great—indeed, foundational—because of Homer, Plato, Euripides, and Aristotle, not because of their modes of transport or their health-care system.”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“Thus, as we’ve seen, the Unholy Left, with satanic facility, manipulates language in the furtherance of its aims. Starting with the proposition that “liberal” or “progressive” equals good and “conservative” equals bad, they merrily apply the “conservative” label to their own movements once they go bad. Note, for instance, their dogmatic reluctance to use the full name of the Nazi Party: the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The Nazis enthusiastically employed as many heroic images of the Toiling Proletariat—hammers swinging, factory wheels turning, bosomy peasant girls saluting the rising sun—as did the Soviet Communists. But, insists the Left, they had nothing whatsoever to do with each other—beyond”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“We must, in short, reject everything that we have previously believed about ourselves that our ancestors taught us. Tradition is the democracy of the dead, as the saying goes, and that democracy must be overthrown in favor of our momentary whims, with an Ermächtigungsgesetz (“enabling law”) that criminalizes even the memory of doing things differently.”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“If “social justice” morally demands equality of outcome, obtained by stealing property and selling it to someone else in exchange for his vote, then what is to stop “social justice” proponents from arbitrarily announcing at a future date that it also morally demands the death of its opponents? What, after all, is the material difference between “thou shalt not steal” and “thou shalt not kill?” To”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

“Democrat-Media Complex.”
― Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West