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"

Eastside High School Principal Joe Clark

"You cannot use a democratic and collaborative style when crisis is rampant and disorder reigns... You need an autocrat to bring things under control."

- Kenneth Tewel, former Principal, on  Principal Joe Clark

From Sardinha's "On Behalf of the Commoner"

"So that it won’t be so is why we go back to the highest undertaking of our duty as Portuguese, which is nothing but the promotion between us of a restoration of intelligence. From one side and the other of the trench where Portugal cuts itself from top to bottom, swarm, in an awkward unconsciousness, the same puppets, the same fakes, whose geneology Eça de Queiróz has outlined in his work full of the utmost demolishing intent. Portugal dies, because, like a Berber tribe, it has let the roots that chain it to the eternal soul of history go dry. Thus, it is up to us - a minority, if we are to be judged - to rebuild, before anything else, the moral physionomy of nationality, by drinking in the heritage of past generations the sacred stimulae that will open before us, one after the other, the mysterious doors of the future." 

- António Sardinha in "A Prol do Comum (On Behalf of the Commoner)", 1934

Image and text from O Horizonte Português - The Sun at Night

The Volga

"And then, suddenly, a broad silvery ribbon - the Volga. We knew this was the goal, the ultimate goal of the war, maybe... to get to the Volga. And beyond the Volga, to the East, we saw the vast, deep forests stretching into the horizon... shrouded in mystery."

- Wehrmacht officer, quoted in the series, War of the Century

A Quote from William Joyce on Britain and World War II

"Britain's victories are barren; they leave her poor, and they leave her people hungry; they leave her bereft of the markets and the wealth that she possessed six years ago. But above all, they leave her with an immensely greater problem than she had then. We are nearing the end of one phase of Europe's history, but the next will be no happier. It will be grimmer, harder and perhaps bloodier. And now I ask you earnestly, can Britain survive?"

- Broadcast from 30 April 1945; William 'Lord Haw Haw' Joyce's last

The well-known scar worn by Joyce was actually

earned while a member of the British Fascisti, the

first fascist group established in Britain

A Quote from Gentile's "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals"

"Fascism became, like Mazzini's Giovane Italia, the faith of all Italians who disdained the past and longed for renewal."

- from the "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" 

Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944), Italian educator.