Oswald Spengler

“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry.”

“Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.”

“World-history is the world-court.”

“Man is a beast of prey.”

“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”

“Every Culture has its own Civilization.”

“Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.”

“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers.”

“High culture and universal suffrage are incompatible.”

“Optimism is cowardice.”

“There is no proletarian, not even a communist, movement, that has not operated in the interest of money.”

“The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with the life-histories of lions and lambs.”

“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician.”

“This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves.”

“A boundless hope is a yearning for the impossible. It is not courage. It is just lack of perspective.”