"Caesarism began with the stabbing of Caesar, and our age, in the strict sense of the word, begins with the assassination in Sarajevo."

"What our so-called conservatives lack, as much as our so-called revolutionaries, is originality."

"These days I often look at pictures of Ernstel with new ideas about photography. No photograph can compete with a good painting in that sphere where art reigns supreme and where ideas and consciousness hold sway. Yet photography has a different, darker quality—the photograph is basically a shadow image. It records something of a person’s substance, of his aura; it is a replica of him. In this sense, it is related to script. We leaf through old letters and photos to jog our memories. At such times, wine is beneficial."

"There are significant individual myths dispersed across our planet suggesting that superior sacrifices triumphed over cannibalism. In the South Seas, on the evening before a festival, the son of a king meets a slave wrapped in crimson robes and asks him where he’s going. The man answers that he is on his way to the royal palace; he has been designated as the ritual meal. In reply, the king’s son promises to save him, goes to the palace in his place, and lets himself be wrapped in palm leaves. When he is served before the king in this manner, the wrapping is opened, revealing to the king his son rather than his slave. This sight rouses and moves the father so much that he forbids the slaughter of human beings forever after. Here we perceive an echo of the highest theme of the human race.
For Indo-European peoples, a dreadful taboo must have been associated with human flesh since ancient times. This is suggested by our own folktales. The curse of Tantalus can also be traced back to a meal. The power of the prohibition can be gauged by the fact that even this war, which was instigated for the basest reasons, has hardly made a dent in it. This is surely noteworthy when we realize who the perpetrators are. Any rationalist economy, no less than any consistent racial doctrine, must essentially lead to cannibalism."

"Prayer clears the air. In this sense, the sound of bells represents collective prayer, the unmediated prayer of the church. This has been replaced by the wail of sirens, some of which are even mounted on the church towers."

“War is the mother of nationalism. War is the experience of blood. War is our mother, she has given birth to us in the swollen belly of the trenches. As a new breed, we proudly acknowledge our origin. Consequently, our values ​​must be heroic values, the values ​​of warriors and not the value of the shopkeeper who wants to measure the world with his cloth measuring stick.”

— Ernst Jünger

"The downfall of order brings good to none."

"Discipline had vanished from the world. It had been replaced by the catastrophe. We were living in permanent unrest, and no one could trust anyone else."