Curtis Yarvin Quotes

The US military fails in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan because it is operating under a doctrine designed to fail.

[F]ar from advancing toward tolerance for all, Western civilization is being overrun by an aggressive and intolerant monoculture.

Progressives have created a vast set of puppet cultures which enable them to describe their monoculture as a multiculture.

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

Restore the Belle Époque!

For example, in many ways nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. Anyone can believe in the truth. To believe in nonsense is an unforgeable demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army.

The only problem with colonialism was that it got nationalized. Which was enough. Colonialism chartered company–style is profitable. Colonialism as a government department is a disaster.

A good test for whether or not anything should continue to exist: if it didn't exist, would anyone invent it?

Of course, since the government is sovereign, it can break its own laws any time it likes. But it will not do this unless it has a good reason, because the value of a lawless state is much lower than that of a lawful one.

The usual pattern is that tyrannies depend on supporters whose lawlessness they have to ignore, and whose depredations they are not powerful enough to formalize.

Fairness is unachievable. Any distribution of rights will be perceived by someone as unfair. If it starts as equal, it will not long remain so. If you try to set it back, you can only do so by breaking the law.

Law is impartial by definition. If it's not impartial, it's not law.

Conflict is an inescapable part of life. Uncertainty is not.

Democracy was not a movement of peasants and artisans. It was a movement on behalf of peasant and artisans. Communism was not a movement of workers. It was a movement on behalf of workers. Civil rights was not a movement of African-Americans. It was a movement on behalf of African-Americans. If the only people who had supported these movements were the designated sufferers themselves, none of us would ever have heard of any of them.

The fact that governments are useful to the inhabitants of their territory is a purely secondary and emergent property. They need to be useful, because a government that does not provide at least basic security will not find itself with any rents to collect.