"God makes kings in the literal sense. He prepares royal races; maturing them under a cloud which conceals their origin. They appear at length crowned with glory and honor; they take their places; and this is the most certain sign of their legitimacy. The truth is that they arise as it were of themselves, without violence on their part, and without marked deliberation on the other: it is a species of magnificent tranquility, not easy to express. Legitimate usurpation would seem to me to be the most appropriate expression (if not too bold), to characterize these kinds of origins, which time hastens to consecrate."

- Joseph de Maistre, Essay on the Generative Principle of Constitutions

"There are two elements within the traditions of those civilizations or of those castes characterized by a Uranian chrism. The first element is a materialistic or naturalistic one; it consists of the transmission of something related to blood and race, namely, a vital force that originates in the subterranean world together with the elementary, collective, and ancestral influences. The second element is 'from above,' and it is conditioned by the transmission and by the uninterrupted performance of rites that contain the secret of a certain transformation and domination realized within the abovementioned vital substratum. The latter element is the higher legacy that confirms and develops the quality the 'divine forefather' has either established ex novo or attracted from another world. This quality originates royal stock, the state, the city or temple, and the caste, the gens or the patrician family according to the supernatural dimension that acts as a 'form' shaping chaos. Both of these elements were found in the higher types of traditional civilizations."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

The first and perhaps the only source of all the ills we experience is contempt for antiquity, or, what amounts to the same thing, contempt for experience.

- Maistre

"The thinker either conforms his desires to the truth, or he conforms truth to desire."

~E. Michael Jones

"But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in Him but in myself and His other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error."

+Saint Augustine, The Confessions

“People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love more than the truth. They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them.”

+St. Augustine of Hippo

“And so the population was gradually led into the demoralizing temptation of arcades, baths and sumptuous banquets. The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilization’, when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement.”
- Tacitus