"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.
