“Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith.”

—  José Antonio Primo de Rivera

Stanley G. Payne, Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism (1961), p. 31.

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