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Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho, plus communément connu sous le nom d'Olavo de Carvalho, né le 29 avril 1947 à Campinas, est un intellectuel brésilien.

Philosophe et essayiste autodidacte, il s'intéresse notamment à la philosophie historique, à l'histoire des mouvements révolutionnaires, à la kremlinologie, à l’école traditionaliste, à la religion comparée, à la psychologie et à l’anthropologie philosophique.

Il est connu au Brésil pour sa position politique conservatrice et pour sa critique de la « pensée unique de gauche » dans les médias et les universités. Il regrette l'absence de pluralisme et le déséquilibre dans le débat politique du pays qu’il ne considère pas comme une démocratie représentative effective. Il est l’antithèse du politiquement correct et du scientisme. Depuis 2005, il vit aux États-Unis.

Son influence apparaît quand, sur le bureau du nouveau président Jair Bolsonaro, entre la Bible, la Constitution et un ouvrage de Winston Churchill sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, se trouve l’un de ses livres. Quelques semaines plus tard, deux personnalités dont l'auteur parle en bien sont nommées à des postes clés du cabinet ministériel : Ernesto Araújo aux Relations extérieures et Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez à l’Éducation, celui-ci destitué en avril 2019. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. avril 1947
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Olavo de Carvalho: Citations en anglais

“It is a natural impulse of human beings to evade the narrowness of personal and family routine to venture into the wider universe of history, where you feel that your life is transcendent and get a higher "sense". The most banal and clumsy way to do it, accessible even to the poor, incapable and rogue is the militancy in a party or a "cause", that is, in some group embellished with pompous words like "freedom", "equality", "justice", "patriotism", "morality" or "human rights". These words can represent any substantive value, but not when the individual acquires from them all the value they may have, rather than filling them with his own personal substance. The most criminal illusion of modernity was to persuade men that they can be noble by identifying with a "cause", when in fact all causes, while names of abstract values, only acquire concrete value by the nobility of men who represent them. The bottom of degradation is achieved when some "causes" are so valued that they seem to infuse virtues automatically in any bum, fake or bandit who agrees to represent them.”

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Diário do Comércio - Causas Sagradas http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/120117dc.html (17 January 2012)

“If you want to argue with me, either you respect me, or hold your tears after I am done with you.”

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Against Right-Wing Bolshevism (or Leftist Traditionalism) https://debateolavodugin.blogspot.com/2011/05/r4-olavo-eng.html (23 May 2011)

“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.”

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Censored article, originally to República Magazine - Clinton, a guerra e a China http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/textos/clinton.htm (2 May 1999)

“If you are a conservative, you think that a citizen has no right to hire another to kill him (much less to kill a third party), because life is a sacred gift that cannot be negotiated. But for the liberal, there is nothing more sacred than the right to buy and sell - even life itself: if you think your life sucks and want to hire a professional to put an end to it, neither the State nor the Church have the right to give the slightest opinion.”

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Jornal do Brasil - Por que não sou liberal http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/070308jb.html (8 March 2007)

“Meanwhile, from our federal government, there was a plan of the National Council of Public Security to resolve the worst and most urgent problem, which is the number of homicides in Brazil, for which we are already in the first place. The first place belonged to Russia, but we are now, with our 50,000 homicides a year, first. Russia has whatever, 42. Russia still was a little bit ahead, but we've got 50. Not saying it's 50, it is 49,999. So we are record-breakers. I already told you, our students take the last places on international tests, and we practice more homicides. Then it is not wrong to conclude: The Brazilian is the dumbest and most murderous of people in the universe!”

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True Outspeak - 7m58s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_KCwlovX0Y#t=7m58s (4 January 2012)

“The largest funder of the campaign for the liberation of drugs is George Soros, who also subsidizes pro-terrorist and disarmament organizations (a wonderful combination) and nurtures the modest ambition of becoming the informal president of the world. He has already bought land in Bolivia, where, once legal barriers are removed, you have everything to be the biggest supplier of raw materials to the FARC.”

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Jornal do Brasil - Pensando com a cabeça de George Soros http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/061001jbdomingo.html (1 October 2006)

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