"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"
"Een fascist moet de werkelijkheid aandurven."
["A fascist must dare to face reality."]
"Frolicking in peace and love must be sweet – no doubt about that. Yet it is a nonsensical and disastrous attitude. With a smothering shroud of six [eight] billion people and all their demands covering the surface of the earth..."
- Pentti Linkola, 'Can Life Prevail?'
"It is blood which moves the wheels of history!"
- Benito Mussolini, end of 1914 Parma speech
"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
"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
"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
"Ce qui est pire c'est qu'on se demande comment le lendemain on trouvera assez de force pour continuer à faire ce qu'on a fait la veille et depuis déjà tellement trop longtemps, où on trouvera la force pour ces démarches imbéciles, ces mille projets qui n'aboutissent à rien, ces tentatives pour sortir de l'accablante nécessité, tentatives qui toujours avortent, et toutes pour aller se convaincre une fois de plus que le destin est insurmontable, qu'il faut retomber au bas de la muraille, chaque soir, sous l'angoisse de ce lendemain, toujours plus précaire, plus sordide.C'est l'âge aussi qui vient peut-être, le traître, et nous menace du pire. On n'a plus beaucoup de musique en soi pour faire danser la vie, voilà. Toute la jeunesse est allée mourir déjà au bout du monde dans le silence de vérité. Et où aller dehors, je vous le demande, dès qu'on a plus en soi la somme suffisante de délire ? La vérité, c'est une agonie qui n'en finit pas. La vérité de ce monde c'est la mort. Il faut choisir, mourir ou mentir. Je n'ai jamais pu me tuer moi."
- Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit
"The Italian Fatherland has found herself again, from the north to the south, from the mainland to those generous islands which shall no more be forgotten, from the metropolis of Rome to the industrious colonies of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Gentlemen, do not throw useless words at the Nation; fifty-two requests to speak on my lists is too much. Let us work, rather, with pure hearts and ready minds to assure the prosperity and the greatness of the Fatherland."- From Mussolini's first speech to the Cabinet, 16 Nov. 1922
"National-Socialism is a revolt of the old German tribes of the primeval forest against the Latin civilization of Rome."
- Mussolini, shaken by the Röhm purge
