“I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.” MenCulturePowerfulPowerIndependentObstaclesTendenciesAggressionDispositionInnate Author:Sigmund Freud
“But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.” Has BeensBookIdeasPlayFilmArtistCultureTerribleSpeechPunishmentAttractiveCensorshipAggressionSkepticismSculptureSkepticalCapital Punishment Author:Rebecca West
“Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.” MenCultureSurvivalFemaleToolsMalesLustFactorsAggressionPaganVastnessEnergizing Book:Sexual Personae Source: Sexual Personae
“A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.” KindIdeasRealityValuesCultureDifferencesLibertyPrinciplesTraditionEndureLibertarianFormerDimensionsBiologyCrucialAggressionHierarchyAxioms Author:Ilana Mercer