Blackshirt Proverbs

“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity gained by doing the right thing is not real unpopularity, but glory.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison. - C.S Lewis

(10) We are not and do not wish to be motionless mummies, with faces perpetually turned towards the same horizon, nor do we wish to shut ourselves up within the narrow hedges of subversive bigotry, where formulas, like prayers of a professed religion, are muttered mechanically. We are men, living men, who wish to give our contribution, however 'modest, to the creation of history. (Audacia, in Diu­ turna, Milano, Alpes, 1930, p. ')­ The Doctrine of Fascism.

“Even those who cannot accept the rule of ‘fascist man’ can only benefit from getting to know him well, if only to combat him. For he is, and there is no doubt about it, one of the most striking personalities of his time, as in other times, for example, the Christian knight who leaned on the cross and the sword, or the pale revolutionary conspirator with his clandestine printing houses and his smoky taverns.” - Robert Brasillach Related: Sir Mussolini was knighted by King George himself.

"The disease of the century is not in the body. The body is sick because the soul is sick. It is the soul that had to be cured and revived at all costs. The real, the great revolution to be made is there. Spiritual revolution." — Léon Degrelle, Les Âmes qui brûlent (1964)

"Rather dead than a slave," says an old Frisian village proverb. The exact opposite is the motto of every subsequent civilization." Oswald Spengler. The Decline of the West.

"We will end up looking at fascist experiences as political experiences that have been burdened and disfigured by the dramatic necessities of war, but which have as their essential character the exaltation of certain moral values: courage, energy, discipline, responsibility, professional conscience, solidarity, the disappearance of which is the tragedy of the societies that followed. To be a fascist today is to wish that these words have a meaning for the peoples." — Maurice Bardèche, La condition de notre salut salut, Le Crapouillot, N° 77 (1984)

«That is one of the reasons why I am so enthusiastic about fascism. Anything that can stop the sniveling, creeping psychology of profit and the calculating psychology of a people helps to raise that people in the scale of absolute human values. When people no longer waste themselves in “rugged individualism” in mere industry, they will be ripe for a truer individualism, as befits the rational and the aesthetic. Long live Mussolini! God speed up a planned, aristocratic state before things explode into the planned proletarian state of little Sonny's dreams!» - H. P. Lovecraft to James F. Morton, October 31, 1933.

“Let it be known, once and for all, that fascism does not know idols, does not worship fetishes: it has already passed and, if necessary, will return again calmly to pass over the more or less decomposed body of the Goddess Liberty.” - Benito Mussolini

"If we want to stop creating savages, we have to learn to say "no" again. We no longer have to say "no" to a man, but we have to say "no" to extreme weakness, complacency, pampering and indulgence. We have to learn again to keep our distance. (...) A civilization is based on the ability to say no" Dominique Venner.

More than all else, a Silvershirt Regime—call it Fascist, Nazi, Populist, or Mugwump—will make rigorously certain that alien despolers are forthwith disenfranchised, their leaders lodged in Federal penitentiaries, and the scum of their evil reasonings scoured from press and screen.”16 The Problem of Fascism as it Applies to America,” Liberation 9, no.5 (1938): 8.

“The Red Jews got into Italy in the wake of war's disintegration and the whole continent of Europe was headed for chaos -- Yiddisher chaos! Suddenly in Italy appeared Mussolini, and he put a halt to Communism. He introduced one-man Fascism because Yiddisher "democracy" doesn't serve in such a turmoil. Out of Mussolini's success grew Hitler's.” A Challenge to THE AMERICAN LEGION by Pelley of the Silvershirts

“The United States of America is in practice and in fact a Fascist State. Moreover, it was the first among Nations to become a Fascist State!” Liberation 10, no. 13 (1939): 4.

I love those who resist when everyone gives up, those who refuse when everyone accepts, those who remain faithful when everyone betrays. Jean Mabire

"The true man reveals himself in difficult times. So when troubles arise, think of yourself as a fighter whom God, like a coach, has trained as a tough young man. For what purpose? To make you indomitable." ✍ Epictetus.

"He who always protects himself from the wind, whose feet are constantly warm and whose rooms remain insulated from the cold, will be in danger when faced with the slightest breeze. All excesses are bad, but none worse than excess of comfort. It affects the brain. It makes men lose sight of reality and the separation between the true and the false becomes nebulous." Seneca.

"No lukewarmness and no worldly fear should keep us from following the light without wavering." J.R.R. Tolkien

Honor has lost its meaning, the honor of the oath, the honor of serving, the honor of dying. Those who remain faithful to these old rites make others smile. Virtue has forgotten its sweet murmur of a spring. Leon Degrelle