Lysander 🇬🇷

“Not many want to fight and go to war, but society is shaped by those who act on their beliefs, not by those who don't.”

«ού παύσεσθε ἡμῖν ὑπεζωσμένοις ξίφη νόμους άναγινώσκοντες;» “Will you not stop mentioning laws to us who are girded with swords?” Plutarch, “The Parallel Lives: The Life of Pompey”, 10.2

“The only way the West can fall is if men and women refuse fight — because they've been led to believe that the West is not worth fighting for.”

A culture that trains its sons to apologize instead of fight is already preparing their graves.

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass...” Carl Jung

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Duino Elegies”

“As far back as one looks into the history of the cities, kingdoms and nations of Europe, the military spirit, in its masculine structure, has been its living heart, closely associated with sovereignty.” Dominique Venner

“The Hellenization of Rome was, of course, the most important cultural conquest that the Hellenes ever achieved at any stage of their history.” Arnold J. Toynbee, “A Study of History”

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” “The Iliad” Painting: Antoine Wiertz, “The Greeks and Trojans Fighting over the Body of Patroclus” (after 1836).

“Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!” “The Iliad” Painting: Wilhelm Tischbein, “Helen”, 1785-95.