โThe White world is governed primarily by idiotsโif it is governed at all, which one is entitled to doubt.โ
โ Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision
โToday only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.โ
โ Ernst Jรผnger, The Glass Bees
"The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I 'ultimately' do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer."
โ Ernst Jรผnger, Eumeswil (1977)
โHaving only contempt for every existing political party, and profound hatred for democracy, I feel the blackest gloom.โ
T.S. Eliot
Eliot by Wyndham Lewis
โHis strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz - everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.โ
Evelyn Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold [1957]