"This war was a defeat of the white races, and the Peace of 1918 was the first great triumph of the coloured world: symbolized by the fact that today it is allowed to have a say in the disputes of the white states among themselves in the Geneva League of Nations — which is
"The German Revolution, however, emerged from a theory. The German, or more precisely Prussian, instinct was: power belongs to the whole.
The individual serves it. The whole is sovereign. The king is only the first servant of his state (Frederick the Great). Everyone is given
"The man who holds nothing in such lofty regard as to be willing to fight for it can scarcely be called a man.
On the opposite side, the man who regards nothing so sacred as his own comfort, seeking peace at all costs, is a truly pathetic creature, Takashi thought after having
“The English, it seemed, did their best to manage their fear of death; the Japanese simply lacked this animal fear, flatly rejecting anything resembling a sentimental attachment to life for its own sake.”
– Chōkōdō Shujin, Finding Takashi
"The white world is governed primarily by idiots — if it is governed at all, which one is entitled to doubt."
- Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision
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"It must be stated again and again that this society, in which in our own time the transition from Culture to Civilization is taking place, is sick, sick in its instincts and therefore in its mind. It offers no defence. It takes pleasure in its own vilification and
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"Japanese military training capitalized on existing tradition and historical legend; custom and superstition were weaponized to mold a fighting man willing — no, grateful — to go to glorious young death for both his nation and, moreover, for his emperor.
He was to think of
"The average man lacks the introspection to grasp his capacity to be manipulated; more than anything, this was apparent.
A convergence of words and history had enticed the populace into a comfortable state of fearful hatred towards a manufactured enemy, its threat artificially
"The world-view of the Faustian man of the Last Days, brave, skeptical, deep, not what is 'true', but what is real to us, the people of the late Occident..."
- Oswald Spengler, "Early Days of World History"
"World history is [the] conflict of nature in man and apart from man, akin to the other great spectacles of nature... the earthquake, the thunderstorm, the storm. The beauty of destruction, the greatness of the will to win."
- Oswald Spengler, "Early Days of World History"
"The Nordic soul is extremely masculine. In action and contemplation. Woman does not know these struggles. Only the decadent, non-procreative woman, the non-mother, strains her little brain to occupy herself with men’s questions."
- Oswald Spengler, "Early Days of World History"
In his last book, The Hour of Decision, Oswald Spengler warned that Western Faustian Culture was in the process of collapse, under attack from both within and without.
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"What greatness lies in history are the mighty passions of races, of peoples, families, estates, of individuals. What they cost, rivers of blood, the burning of cities, ruins, is not too dear."
- Oswald Spengler, "Early Days of World History"
"The meaning of socialism is that it is not the opposition of rich and poor, but the rank that achievement and ability give, that governs life. This is our freedom, freedom from the economic arbitrariness of the individual."
- Oswald Spengler, "Prussianism and Socialism"
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"We live in momentous times. The stupendous dynamism of the historical epoch that has now dawned makes it the grandest, not only in the Faustian civilization of Western Europe, but — for that very reason — in all world-history, greater and by far more terrible than the ages of
"We have city walls, the best cavalry in the world, and the spirit of sixty generations of Romans who protected this city from Hannibal and scores of more formidable foes. Shall we now shrink before the Goths?"
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"The world-view of the Faustian man of the Last Days, brave, sceptical, deep, not what is 'true', but what is real to us, the people of the late Occident, an image with which we grow, which we ourselves are, which each individual, insofar as he has depth, seeks, suspects darkly
"Man is a beast of prey. Acute thinkers, like Montaigne and Nietzsche, have always known this.
The life wisdom in the old fairy tales and proverbs of all peasant and nomad folk; the smiling penetration characteristic of the great connoisseur of men, whether statesman or
"Culture is the unconscious realisation of the possible, an urge, not a decision. All forms of culture arise involuntarily.
No people creates culture, but is created by culture. The types of people are, like works of art and ways of thinking, expressions of cultures, symbols."
“Somewhere in his heart, Takashi knew he would never return to Japan; like the fallen men whose bodies littered that obscene highway of blood and bones, he knew he would be killed on this soil. No matter how desperately he longed for freedom, there was no escape.”
– Chōkōdō
"General Flavius Belisarius's father once told him, 'In love, we discover who we hope to be; in war, we come to understand who we truly are.'"
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"It was not Germany that lost the World War; the West lost it when it lost the respect of the coloured races."
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"Modern democracy is not only legalism and equalitarianism; it is socialism. It sets its face against all abuse of the advantages of ownership."
- H. G. Wells, The Fate of Homo Sapiens
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“General Flavius Belisarius’s father had once told him, ‘In love, we learn who we hope to be, but in war, we realize who we are.’ It seemed like good fatherly advice at the time, but Belisarius thought his father had gotten it backward. War was usually simple; the enemies and
“One interesting author whose books mostly await translation is the 19th-century economist and philosopher Eugen Dühring. Professor Dühring was the father of Prussian socialism. Before Sombart or Spengler, Dühring was the first thinker to see in the Prussian tradition the
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"Robert Bruton's prose is economical yet substantive, and his story-telling is contoured and engaging. He brings Belisarius, Antonina, Justinian, Theodora, and others to life in the contexts of their times.
Bruton fills in their emotions,
"Your Highness, my heart shutters to inform you that I fear the Gates of Hell have been opened upon Earth and that the Second Coming may be upon us."
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"The Russian Revolution failed not by its extremism but through the impatience, violence and intolerance of its onset, through lack of foresight and intellectual insufficiency.
The cosmopolitan revolution to a world collectivism, which is the only alternative to chaos and
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“Collectivisation means the handling of the common affairs of mankind by a common control responsible to the whole community. It means the suppression of go-as-you-please in social and economic affairs just as much as in international affairs. It means the frank abolition of
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