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Quote by Tharman Shanmugaratnam

“People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.”

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Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a prominent Singaporean politician and economist, currently serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore. Born on January 22, 1957, he has been a key figure in the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). more

“The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities.”

Values Energy Civilization Weakness Capacity Etc Individualism Dominant Humanitarianism Narcissistic Bourgeois Affirmative Hedonism Cosmopolitanism

Author:Guillaume Faye

“We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us. It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present.”

Should Matter Lasts Values Century Concerned Reactions Extensions Restoration Devouring Pox Envisioning

Book:Archeofuturism

Source: Archeofuturism

“Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of our most archaic roots, which is to say those most suited to the victorious life.”

Matter Today Past Roots Possession Conserving Recent Past

Book:Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-catastrophic Age

Source: Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-catastrophic Age

“We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.”