…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is — terror. - Thomas Mann

I want the monarchy. I want a tolerably independent government, because it alone guarantees political freedom, both in the intellectual and economic spheres. I want it because it was the separation of monarchical state government from the monied interests that gave the Germans leadership in social policy. I do not want the parliamentary and party economic system that caused the pollution of all national life with politics… I want objectivity, order, and decency.

... a secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown.