“…It was therefore not sufficient to create—as some have said superficially—an anti-altar to the altar of socialism. It was necessary to imagine a wholly new political conception, adequate to the living reality of the twentieth century, overcoming at the same time the ideological worship of liberalism, the limited horizons of various spent and exhausted democracies, and finally the violently Utopian spirit of Bolshevism.”
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
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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
Source: Neither Left nor Right: Fascist Ideology in France, 1996, p. 27
In Dagbladet (6 October 2004) http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2004/10/06/410404.html
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.”
Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (1995)
1990s
“Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.”
Part Eight “The Return”, Chapter xiii “A Fleeting Glimpse”, Section 1 (p. 402)
(1987), BOOK TWO: THE FUGUE
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.”
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.