Oswald Spengler Quotes


"If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace."
- Oswald Spengler
(Related: Peace, War, Soul)

"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes."
- Oswald Spengler
(Related: Capitalism, Nothing, Socialism)

"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact."
- Oswald Spengler
(Related: Money, Time, Being, Fact, Leaders, Suspicion)

"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; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on."
- Oswald Spengler
(Related: Life, Act, May)