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Olavo de Carvalho is a prominent Brazilian philosopher, writer, and political commentator known for his conservative views. With a vast following on social media and various publications, he has become a leading voice in the conservative movement in Brazil. As a prolific author, Olavo de Carvalho has written numerous books on philosophy, politics, and culture, shaping the intellectual discourse in the country. His insightful commentary on current events and cultural trends attract a loyal audience seeking alternative perspectives. Stay informed on Olavo de Carvalho's latest thoughts and analyses by following his social media accounts and reading his published works. #OlavodeCarvalho #Brazilianphilosopher #conservativecommentator

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In fact, it is the very phenomenon of factions, small groups, circles of friendship and mutual aid, which generates the pseudo-intellectual and sustains it by the false security arising from the easy applause of numerous comrades – a protective cushion that preserves it from any critical gaze. but it imprisons him, in the end, in the most depressing self-deception.

- Olavo de Carvalho

The ease with which the apostles of the future better accept and legitimize the brute fact of injustice, oppression and genocide in the societies of their own making contrasts pathetically with their revolt and indignation against mere abstract ideas, symbols and cultural values of other societies. Even today, after all the historic crimes of their revolution have been revealed, it seems to them less urgent to denounce the uninterrupted Chinese state slaughter or to dismantle the lethal narco-guerrilla machine than to destroy the language and values of societies that, if they have their share of evils and madness, were never genocidal or totalitarian. It is that in this language and in these values, sometimes millenary, its enemy par excellence is incorporated: human nature.

- Olavo de Carvalho

As a young man, Bill Clinton was one of thousands of leftist students who benefited from KGB funds, earning one of those trips to the USSR which were the preferred means for the recruitment of Soviet agents in the universities of the West. In the 60s, that would be deterrent enough for any application for town mayor of the interior. In the 90s, after three decades of Gramscian cultural revolution, the dangerous links did not prevent Clinton from being elected US president with the support of the American Communist Party. Thanks to a well-calculated 'politically correct' speech, the new ruler became an idol of the left, which moved heaven and earth to keep him in office despite a range of charges, including sexual frivolities, financial imbroglios and a multitude of small Watergates, including something perfectly serious and terrifying: the suspicion of favoring Chinese nuclear espionage. The well-thinking press resisted any investigation of the matter.

- Olavo de Carvalho

Socialism was never a god or an ideal. It was a demonic lie and an exploitation of the fatuity of the multitudes. Abandoning it is not losing an ideal: it is regaining life, soul, a sense of duty and the dignity of the human mission.

- Olavo de Carvalho

No professional historian is ignorant of the fact that mass murders due to religious conflicts, no matter how horribly they inspire us, have never produced a number of victims even remotely comparable to that of modern revolutionary movements inspired by 'scientific' ideologies.

- Olavo de Carvalho

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.