“Most men, the herd, have never tasted solitude. They leave father and mother, but only to crawl to a wife and quietly succumb to new warmth and new ties. They are never alone, they never commune with themselves.”
— Hermann Hesse
— Hermann Hesse
“All these noble ideas about equality and fraternity are lies. They exist to make fools march in line.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
— Niccolò Machiavelli
"You have already defeated us twice, but we will win the third time and you will not know anything until everything is over."
— Dr. Josef Mengele, last page of his personal diary.
— Dr. Josef Mengele, last page of his personal diary.
"Become who you are. Do what only you can do. Be the master and the sculptor of yourself. "
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"If a man is to be liked, he must really be inferior in point of intellect."
— Schopenhauer
— Schopenhauer
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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
― Niccolò Machiavelli
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“I know no better life purpose than that of perishing, pro viribus, in the pursuit of the great and the impossible.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I hate equality. It is the lie of the prophets. No people is equal to another. No man is equal to another. I love the exceptional precisely because they are the exception."
— Roman von Ungern Sternberg
— Roman von Ungern Sternberg
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"The wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour."
— Niccolò Machiavelli
— Niccolò Machiavelli
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"Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!"
— Patrick Pearse
— Patrick Pearse
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"We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future." — Patrick Pearse
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“You either become a wolf or get eaten by wolves.”
— Zyzz
— Zyzz
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“If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.”
— Zyzz
— Zyzz
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“Christianity is called the religion of pity. Pity stands opposed to the tonic emotions which heighten our vitality! It has a depressing effect. We are deprived of strength when we feel pity. That loss of strength which suffering as such inflict on life is still further increased and multiplied by pity. Pity makes suffering contagious. Under certain circumstances, it may engender a total loss of life and vitality out of all proportion to the magnitude of the cause…”
— Nietzsche, The Antichrist
— Nietzsche, The Antichrist
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“I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche.
— Friedrich Nietzsche.
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"Who talks of disaster and defeat? Who talks of death and decay? Shall a nation 3000 years old pass away like a dream that has been dreamt? Shall the stubborn race that has kept its face to the foe for seven long centuries turn tail and flee"
— Pádraig Mac Piarais
— Pádraig Mac Piarais
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"We swear the oaths our ancestors swore. That we will free our race from bondage, or that we will fall fighting hand to hand."
— Pádraig Mac Piarais
— Pádraig Mac Piarais
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