"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
- To Edwin L. Edwins of New York Times"The dogma of popular sovereignty... in practice is the sovereignty of small minorities composed of intriguing demagogues."- In Times article, "Mussolini Rejects Democratic Rule"
"His flesh, that stuff full of veins, nerves, tendons, glands, and bones; full of instincts and necessities; the flesh that sweats and stinks; flesh which deforms and sickens, ulcerates and is covered with wrinkles, pimples, warts, and hairs; that bestial stuff, flesh, flourished in him with a species of impudence..."- Gabriele D'Annunzio, 'The Triumph of Death'
"Een fascist moet de werkelijkheid aandurven."
["A fascist must dare to face reality."]
"It is blood which moves the wheels of history!"
- Speech at Parma by Mussolini
"Struggle is at the bottom of everything, because life is full of contrasts. There is love and hate, black and white, night and day, good and evil..."
- Benito Mussolini, "The Task of Fascism"
"The Anglo-Americans certainly did not wage war out of some desire to help or "liberate" any Western European people, but rather because they saw themselves threatened by the advent of a new era, which was expressed in Italy and in Germany with more strength and awareness than anywhere else."- Carlo Alberto Biggini, "Truth and Lies About Fascism"
"Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith."
- Primo de Rivera, quoted in Payne's 'A History of Spanish Fascism,' 1961, p. 31
"We wear the clothes and embrace the forms of democracy. Are they worth anything?"- Corneliu Codreanu, "A Few Remarks on Democracy"
"More than ever, the supreme and most urgent necessity is to see and say things as they are... And, more than for others, this is an imperative necessity for those who take it upon themselves to lead their people... More than ever, because, as perhaps never before, the lives of men and the lives of the nations on all sides are dominated by lies and deceit. Such that one hardly hears or reads words anymore that are words of truth: honest and matter-of-fact expression of genuine reality."- Joris van Severen
"Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it."
- Augusto Pinochet
"But the daily tasks and prayers of men, the ancient city tired from having lived too long, the ravaged marble and worn out bells, all those things oppressed by the weight of memories, all those perishable things were rendered humble in comparison with the tremendous blazing Alps that tore at the sky with their thousand unyielding spikes, a vast, solitary city that was waiting, perhaps, for a new race of Titans."
- D'Annunzio, from The Flame
"Gajda had been one of the leaders of the Czechoslovak legions in Russia and right-hand man of Admiral Kolchak. In 1926, as chief of staff and inspired by Marshal Pilsudsky's march on Warsaw, he had attempted a coup d'état. A reactionary epigone of pan-Slavism and anti-Bolshevik, related to the White Russians, he had the reputation in Italy of a "Czechoslovak Mussolini"."
- Enzo Santarelli
"The wisdom of a thousand generations slumbers in you. Waken it and you have found the key which will open the doors of your truest aspirations. Only he who esteems himself is worthy of being a man. Only he is a man who bears the living past and future in himself, for only he is able to stand above the present hour. And only he who is master of the present is successful; he alone is fulfilled. As only in fulfillment is divinity."- Heinrich Himmler
"The slow, soft days are behind us, perhaps forever. Hard days and dark nights ahead, no relaxing of the muscle of mind and will. It is at once our privilege and our ordeal to live in a dynamic period in the history of man. The tents of ease are struck and the soul of man once more is on the march. Do we envy those who have lived in the lotus moments of the past? Do those of my generation regret their own short youth; that brief bright moment between storm and storm? No! we regret nothing, not even our own past. Those who have lived in the happy valleys of blissful, peaceful periods in the history of the world have never known our depths, but they have also never known our heights."
- Sir Oswald Mosley, 'Fascist Week,' Dec. 22-28, 1933
