Codreanu on the Life and Death of Nations

"A people is not led according to its will; the democratic formula; nor according to the will of one individual: the dictatorial formula. But according to laws. I do not talk here of man-made laws. There are norms, natural laws of life; and there are norms, natural laws of death. Laws of life and laws of death. A nation is headed for life or death according to its respect for one or the other of these laws." 

- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 'For My Legionaries' 

Image: Iron Guard funeral procession for Codreanu

A Remark from Ioannis Metaxas on the Blood of Heroes

"Heroes never die; instead they fall, and the soil, by drinking their blood, allows them to be reborn..." 

- Ioannis Metaxas 

Image: Greeks salute Metaxas, the leader of the Fourth of August regime in Greece (1936-41)

"Paracelsus in Excelsis," by Ezra Pound

Being no longer human, why should I

Pretend humanity or don the frail attire?

Men have I known and men, but never one

Was grown so free an essence, or become

So simply element as what I am. 

The mist goes from the mirror and I see.

Behold! the world of forms is swept beneath-

Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,

And we that are grown formless, rise above-

Fluids intangible that have been men,

We seem as statues round whose high-risen base

Some overflowing river is run mad,

In us alone the element of calm.

- Ezra Pound, "Paracelsus in Excelsis"

Ramiro Ladesma Ramos on the Nation and the Land

"The land belongs to the nation." 

- Ramiro Ladesma Ramos, ideologist of Spanish fascism, progenitor of National-Syndicalism, writer, essayist, hero of the Spanish Civil War (killed in 1936 by the Soviet-backed Popular Front).

A Remark from Léon Degrelle in 'Militia'

"A great ideal always gives the strength to dominate one's body, to suffer fatigue, hunger and cold. What matters, the sleepless nights, oppressive work, cares or poverty! The essential thing is to have at the bottom of your heart a great force that revives and pushes forward, which strengthens the nerves, which makes the tired blood throb with strong beats, which infuses a burning and conquering fire into the eyes. Then nothing gives pain, pain itself becomes joy because it is more of a means to elevate his gift, to purify his sacrifice." 

- Léon Degrelle, 'Militia'

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'

Mussolini on Fascism as Against Rule by Numbers

"Fascism denies that numbers, by the mere fact of being numbers, can direct human society; it denies that these numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations; it affirms also the fertilizing, beneficient and unassailable inequality of men, who cannot be leveled through an extrinsic and mechanical process such as universal suffrage."

- Benito Mussolini, second part of "The Doctrine of Fascism"

Benito Mussolini on Liberty as Duty

"Liberty is a duty, not a right."

- Benito Mussolini

A Quote from Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

"I am a fascist because I have measured the progress of decadence in Europe. I have seen in fascism the sole means of limiting and reducing that decadence."

- Drieu La Rochelle, La Nouvelle Revue française, no. 347, January 1943: 105; quoted in the following online reprint: "Two Intellectual Responses to the Dilemma of Political Engagement in Interwar France," by Christopher T. Ryan.

A Quote from Mussolini on Life as Will and Duty

"It is thus that the fascist loves and accepts life, ignores and disdains suicide; understands life as a duty, a lifting up, a conquest; something to be filled in and sustained on a high plane; a thing that has to be lived through for its own sake, but above all for the sake of others near and far, present and future." 

- Benito Mussolini, second part of 'The Doctrine of Fascism'

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

The Tyrant Must Steal Sleep

"The tyrant must steal sleep. He must vary the locations and times. He never sleeps in his palaces. He moves from secret bed to secret bed. Sleep and a fixed routine are among the few luxuries denied him. It is too dangerous to be predictable, and whenever he shuts his eyes, the nation drifts."

- Mark Bowden, "Tales of the Tyrant"