Curtis Yarvin Quotes

A common error […] is to identify tyranny and monarchy, which in fact are quite unrelated political forms—all they share is the coincidence of personal rule. We may not all know it, but we'd almost all rather live under the "autocratic" and "absolutist" tsars than under Stalin.

[A]s long as the actions of two parties advance each others' interests, they can be considered allies, even if their philosophies of the world are so utterly opposed that they cannot afford the luxury of any such favorable reference.

[P]ower in a democracy is held by those who manage public opinion.

Journalism […] looks like an unfree market because it is tied so closely to the unfree market of higher education.

[I]n a free society, there is no such thing as official truth.

[T]he continuity of tradition from Plymouth Rock to the United Nations is quite unmistakable.

In the English language as we use it now, words like progressive and conservative are actually relative designations. Progressive means "left of the mainstream" and conservative means "right of the mainstream." When the mainstream shifts, these words have to shift as well, and the result is that many of the radical left-wing ideas of 1907 would be radical right-wing ideas in 2007.

In a democracy with a free press, the press is the government. Public opinion on any subject will naturally shift toward the opinions of those who explain that subject to the public.

The secret of power is that power and responsibility are the same thing.

[T]he replacement of religion by idealism has allowed people who are essentially religious fanatics to achieve positions of unprecedented temporal supremacy, not only without arousing the alarm of reasonable, scientifically minded writers, but in fact enlisting their enthusiastic support.

Most people in the West don't think their entire system of government is fundamentally, irreparably corrupt. Nor did most people in the Soviet Union.

For obvious reasons of human psychology, journalists […] are likely to favor political systems in which they themselves are more important and powerful.

The artists of today produce kitsch because they're rebelling against a fictitious power structure by supporting a real one.

The problem today is that the people who think they are the most daring are in fact the most obsequious.

In the twenty-first century, any writer whose work appears anywhere but his own blog is a shill. Or at least, he should be assumed to be compromised unless proven otherwise. The Internet has all the tools you need to write and be read without being beholden to anyone. If anyone rejects this independence, you have to wonder why.