From Don Calacho, Nicolás Gómez Dávila
It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.
The modern metropolis is not a city; it is a disease.
In the modern state there now exist only two parties: citizens and bureaucracy.
Fashion, even more than technology, is the cause of the modern world's uniformity.
Ever since Wundt, one of the classic places of "disguised unemployment" is the experimental psychology laboratory. (
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A bureaucracy ultimately always ends up costing the people more than an upper class.
Where the law is not customary law, it is easily turned into a mere political weapon.
Trying to "promote culture" while recommending the reading of "national authors" is a contradictory endeavor.
"To have faith in man" does not reach the level of blasphemy; it is just one more bit of stupidity.
The people is sometimes right when it is frightened; but is always wrong when it becomes enthusiastic.
Monarchs, in almost every dynasty, have been so mediocre that they look like presidents.
The results of modern "liberation" make us remember with nostalgia the abolished "bourgeois hypocrisies."
Everything that can be reduced to a system ends up in the hands of fools.
The majority of the tasks that this century's typical ruler believes he is obliged to assume are nothing more than abuses of power.
Human warmth in a society diminishes by the same measure that its legislation is perfected.