“In sociology, just as in biology, uniformity and immobility are death.”

— Alfredo Rocco

“L'ora del nazionalismo” (“Nationalism's hour”), 1919 essay in Alfredo Rocco’s Scritti e discorsi politici, Milan: Giuffrè. Vol. 2, (1938) p. 510

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