These quotes you provide only reinforce the lone citizen holding out against the investigative, prosecutorial reach of the state.
""All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single
person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it
comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all." (Vladimir
Lenin, as quoted in "Not by Politics Alone.)
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the
Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade
such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero,
always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war. (Benito Mussolini)
Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers
a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which
determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great
spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in
the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this
need of rising the State to its rightful position. (Mario Palmieri, "The Philosophy of
Fascism" 1936) |
