"Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country.
Germany is Germany. There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult.
From a moral point of view, too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily."
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
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"Middle class, middle man, incapable of great virtue or great vice: and there would be nothing wrong with that if only he would be willing to remain as such; but when his childlike or feminine tendency to camouflage pushes him to dream of grandeur, honors, and thus riches, which he cannot achieve honestly with his own 'second-rate' powers, then the average man compensates with cunning, schemes, and mischief; he kicks out ethics and becomes a bourgeois. The bourgeois is the average man who does not accept to remain such and who, lacking the strength sufficient for the conquest of essential values - those of the spirit - opts for material ones, for appearances."
Paravese, Roberto (1939) 'Bonifica antiborghese', in Edgardo Sulis (ed.), Processo alla borghesia, Roma: Edizioni Roma, pp.51 - 70.
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What’s the purpose of militancy? Rarely to advance the cause one defends, but before all to shape oneself. To endow oneself with a character. To structure oneself, physically and mentally. Militancy is a school. Militancy is a giving of oneself. But it also can be an alienation. Each time it prevents one from thinking for himself it alienates. [...] It allows one to acquire an armor, but one can forget that the cuirass is not the body. There is an enormous difference between the engaged spirit and the partisan spirit. Even in the service of the best of causes, a partisan spirit is never a free spirit. The important thing is to engage oneself full time, with self detachment. The priority is always beyond one’s self.
Alain de Benoist, ID magazine (n° 9 - spring 2007)
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