Quotes by Francis Yockey

• To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
• Politics is activity in relation to power.
• Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
• The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
• The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
• The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
• The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
• The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
• The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
• Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
• A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
• To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
• The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
• Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
• No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
• As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
• Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
• Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
• A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
• If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
• Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
• Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
• Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
• Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
• Man as a pure animal does not exist.