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In dealing with relationships, not only man-to-man, but also State-to-State and race-to-race, it is necessary to be able to conceive again of that obedience which does not humiliate but exalts, that command or leadership which commits one to superiority and a precise responsibility.

— Julius Evola Metaphysics of War (2007)

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The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.

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Aristocracy is often mistaken for plutocracy.

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The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.

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War makes one realise the relativity of human life and therefore also the law of a 'more-than-life', and thus war has always an anti-materialist value, a spiritual value.

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