Beyond the Lotus Moments of the Past

"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

Faustian Man and Fascism as Caesarism and Science

"Caesarism and science together could evolve Faustian man; a civilisation which could renew its youth in a persisting dynamism..." 

- Sir Oswald Mosley, 'My Life'

Sir Oswald Mosley on Fascism as Will to Life

"Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly."

- Excerpt from Sir Mosley's My Life

Remark by Sir Mosley on Alliance with Italy and Germany

"When we have power, there will be no war, because we shall make peace with Germany and Italy in a new union of the great nations of Europe."

- Sir Oswald Mosley, quoted in a BBC program, "Against the War"