Curtis Yarvin - History Quotes

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

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Of course empire works. Conquest works. It has worked for the entire course of human history. It is not only effective, it is profitable.

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

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[…] the 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.

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[…] revenue-maximizing government is not a medieval atrocity from the past, but a permanent feature of human history whose rare exceptions are unstable and undesirable.

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The history of ideas since 1789 is an endless record of mass murder in the name of the people.

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I see this Hitler-was-a-liberal trope catching on all over the right. Of course, it is a leftist trope—in two senses. First, the tactic of tarring all political adversaries with some abstruse connection to fascism in general, and Hitler in particular, is of course a characteristic tactic of the Left. Second, the tactic of disseminating a palpable misreading of history, for political purposes—etc.

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The irony of the postwar age is that this reign of global peace, this universalist millennium, was achieved by the Allied victory in the most ruthless war in modern history, in which neither side displayed the slightest respect for enemy civilians.

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Every society in human history that has ever given itself over to government by intellectuals has lived to regret it. Ours will be no different.

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[…] if there is any constant in history, it is that philosophers are very bad at predicting the future. Even when the policies they propose are followed, the results tend to be quite different from predictions.

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