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"Society must be organised and structured to create orderly processes of advancement. It must have a clearly defined hierarchy in all societal activities; and hierarchy necessitates diversity — otherwise it cannot distribute its individuals within the hierarchy. This is why universalist-egalitarian societies fail to function properly.

Modern politics rest on the idea that a long and comfortable life is the highest value, something to be purchased even at the price of dignity. Aristocratic politics is founded on the notion that honour is the highest value, to be purchased even at the price of one’s life.

Hence, the spiritual aristocrat must be ready to die; he must conquer his fear of death; he must even come to love death: for it is his ability to choose death before dishonour that raises him above the mere status of a clever animal. It is what makes him free: natural master rather than natural slave. It is, ultimately, the foundation of all forms of higher culture which involve the rejection, or subordination and stylisation, of merely animal desire.

A natural slave is one who is willing to abandon his honour to save his life. Hence, ‘modern politics — which exalts a long and prosperous life as the highest value — is a form of spiritual slavery, even where the external controls are merely soft commercial and political incentives rather than chains and cages.’

'Aristocratism,' as a vital attitude, consists in bestowing value — in its proper sense — on things without price. Distinction, a sense of hierarchy: in short, what adds to life quality which is inappreciable in an egalitarian world — in that it cannot be appreciated quantitatively.

The political task of an aristocracy is to restore to its community of reference a historical perspective — one capable of seizing the true dynamics of history."

-Daniel S. Forrest