“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”
Paramahansa Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
My Autobiography, New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1928. Reprinted in Benito Mussolini, My Rise And Fall, Volumes 1-2 Da Capo Press, 1998 (p. 68-9)
1920s
“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”
Paramahansa Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
Wilhelm Reich book The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Section 3 : Work Democracy versus Politics. The Natural Social Forces for the Mastery of the Emotional Plague;
Variant translation: The fact that political ideologies are tangible, active realities does not prove their necessity. The bubonic plague was an extremely potent social reality. But nobody would have argued that, because it existed, it was necessary and nothing should be done about it.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. 10 : Work Democracy
Zeev Sternhell (1935) Israeli historian
Source: Neither Left nor Right: Fascist Ideology in France, 1996, p. 27
Carl I. Hagen (1944) Norwegian politician
In Dagbladet (6 October 2004) http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2004/10/06/410404.html
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Source: The Sword or the Cross, Which Should be the Weapon of the Christian Militant? (1921), Ch.6 p. 103
“The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.”
Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer
Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (1995)
1990s
“Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.”
Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist
Part Eight “The Return”, Chapter xiii “A Fleeting Glimpse”, Section 1 (p. 402)
(1987), BOOK TWO: THE FUGUE
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
On New Democracy (1940)
Original: (zh-CN) 国体——各革命阶级联合专政。政体——民主集中制。这就是新民主主义的政治,这就是新民主主义的共和国,这就是抗日统一战线的共和国,这就是三大政策的新三民主义的共和国,这就是名副其实的中华民国。我们现在虽有中华民国之名,尚无中华民国之实,循名责实,这就是今天的工作。
“We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. And history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.