Curtis Yarvin Quotes

There is no institution to which one can go in order to receive a sound paleoconservative education. Most of the people in the idea trade would simply deny that such a thing exists. Safeway will sell you a whole, salted rhinoceros head before Harvard will teach you that Lincoln was a tyrant.

[T]he hardest part of thinking clearly is recognizing false assumptions that are universally shared.

[E]very kind of human action has become shrouded in a vast cloud of something called "ethics", which no one can define, but no one is allowed to question. An actual holy book would be a serious improvement.

All decent, reasonable men are horrified by the idea that the government might control the press.
None of them seem concerned at all that the press might control the government.

That's always the trouble with history. It always looks like it's over. But it never is.

The essential idea of leftism is that the world should be governed by scholars.

Democratic politics is best understood as a sort of symbolic violence, like deciding who wins the battle by how many troops they brought.

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

Replacing your own ideology is a lot like do-it-yourself brain surgery.

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 other day I was tinkering around in my garage and I decided to build a new ideology.

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

You think you're charging the matador, but you're charging the cape.

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

Universities are no longer institutions of scholarship. They are revolutionary seminaries. Their product is cadre.