Curtis Yarvin Quotes

In fact, it's basically impossible to combine a system in which agreements stay agreed with one in which equality stays equal.

Moderation is not an ideology. It is not an opinion. It is not a thought. It is an absence of thought. If you believe the status quo of 2007 is basically righteous, then you should believe the same thing if a time machine transported you to Vienna in 1907. But if you went around Vienna in 1907 saying that there should be a European Union, that Africans and Arabs should rule their own countries and even colonize Europe, that any form of government except parliamentary democracy is evil, that paper money is good for business, that all doctors should work for the state, etc., etc.—well, you could probably find people who agreed with you. They wouldn't call themselves "moderates", and nor would anyone else.

The charge that universities are directly responsible for almost all the violence in the world today […] strikes me as essentially accurate.

[T]he tradition to which most sophisticated Westerners of 2007 conform is best seen as a sect of Christianity.

History is a branch of literature, not a field of science.

[A] free, prosperous democratic society is like a person who's so strong and healthy he can take a dose of arsenic every day—or at least, every four years—and still survive, sort of. The free, prosperous democratic society might be remarkably unfree and unprosperous compared to an undemocratic society that never took the arsenic, but so few of the latter survived the last two centuries that we have no basis for comparison.

All the great crimes of the recent past have been committed by states which portrayed themselves as profoundly ethical actors. Removing this mask, eliminating the ability of the beast to portray itself as good, uninstalls an essential module in this perverse system.

Yes, the US military should leave Iraq and Afghanistan. But it should leave not because it is impossible for a modern military to defeat a bunch of tribal warriors. It should leave because it is fighting an American civil war by proxy. One, this is just sick. And two, the right place to fight a civil war is always at home.

Technical advances have masked, and continue to mask, the signs of decay that would otherwise be obvious.

Ultimately, a pacifist is just an activist whose strategy for victory is to suppress the military efforts of his enemies.

I'm quite happy to be an anti-intellectual, actually. It is the modern equivalent of anticlericalism, and it is long overdue. One can oppose specific institutions without opposing thought in general. In fact, sometimes it is even necessary.

The New York Times could print nothing but lies for a year, and it would still be the most powerful institution in the world.

Stability is much underappreciated, especially by those who enjoy its benefits.

Simplicity is the cure for violence. For example, if we postulate an imaginary oracle that could predict the outcome of any battle, we could eliminate war. The predicted loser would have no incentive but to concede to the demands of the predicted winner.

[T]he law itself is arbitrary—a product of history, just like all other distributions of property. We support it because it's stable, and we like stability.