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For the average person, all problems date to World War II for the more informed, to World War I for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: July 31
Died: 1999
Died: May 26
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Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.
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Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.
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Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
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