"The difference between "organic" and "mechanical" in social matters is a moral one: the "organic" is the result of innumerable humble acts; the "mechanical" is the result of one decisive act of arrogance."

"The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own."

"La técnica no cumple los viejos sueños del hombre, sino los remeda con sorna. (p. 12)"

"Envejecer es catástrofe del cuerpo que nuestra cobardía convierte en catástrofe del alma. (p. 21)"

"En lugar de humanizar la técnica el moderno prefiere tecnificar al hombre. (p. 123)"

"La técnica ofrecería menos peligros si su manipuleo no le fuese tan fácil al imbécil y tan rentable al caco. (p. 179)"

"El moderno llama “cambio” caminar más rápidamente por el mismo camino en la misma dirección. El mundo, en los últimos trescientos años, no ha cambiado sino en ese sentido. La simple propuesta de un verdadero cambio escandaliza y aterra al moderno. (p. 227)"

"For those who want to talk a lot about World War II, if it's about occupation, then we could also talk about it (Muslim prayers in the streets), because that is occupation of territory. It is an occupation of sections of the territory, of districts in which religious laws apply. It's an occupation. There are of course no tanks, there are no soldiers, but it is nevertheless an occupation and it weighs heavily on local residents."

"Eric Zemmour is a man from the right who has never belonged to the extreme right, or to Mrs. and Mr. Le Pen's party. But he is someone who has the ideas of Geert Wilders about Islam and migration. We have the paradox that Marine Le Pen, who has been called the far right for the past 20 years, is being overtaken by someone who is much harsher and more pessimistic."

"If one day, there is someone who is better placed than me to assemble the millions of French citizens who are needed to bring about the turnaround of our country, then I will step aside."

"What matters to me is the defence of France."

"France will be led by a woman, either me or Mrs. Merkel."

"Now, the dividing line is not between left and right but globalists and patriots."

"The immigrationist religion is an insult for human beings, whose integrity is always bound to one national community, one language, one culture."

"Every minute, every instant, from Brittany to Corsica and from Lille to Strasbourg, the French look around them, and ask themselves: Where am I?"

"The objective of these barbaric acts is to terrorise, to paralyse through fear, to subjugate or to censor. Undisputedly after this act that traumatised the whole nation, fear is there. It is my responsibility to say that this fear must be overcome. And to say that this attack must continue to prompt free speech in the face of Islamic fundamentalism. We must not stay silent. And we must say what happened. We must not be scared of words: this is a terrorist act committed in the name of radical Islamism. Denial and hypocrisy are no longer an option. The absolute refusal of Islamic fundamentalism must be proclaimed high and loud by whomever. Life and liberty are among the most precious values."

"The EU is deeply harmful, it is an anti-democratic monster. I want to prevent it from becoming fatter, from continuing to breathe, from grabbing everything with its paws and from extending its tentacles into all areas of our legislation. In our glorious history, millions have died to ensure that our country remains free. Today, we are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us."

"I heard the president of the Republic say: "We should be applying a lifelong ineligibility of those who are convicted…" – so far I agree, it was in my presidential project – "…for corruption and fiscal fraud." Ah, and why not for more? Why not for cronyism? Why not for embezzlement of public funds? Why not for fictitious employment? [...] When are we going to learn and actually introduce a lifelong ineligibility for all those who have been convicted for misconduct thanks to or during their mandate?"

"Tolerance? What does that mean? I am a very tolerant and hospitable person, like you. Would you accept 12 illegal immigrants moving into your flat? You would not! On top of that, they start to remove the wallpaper! Some of them would steal your wallet and brutalise your wife. You would not accept that! Consequently, we are hospitable, but we decide with whom we want to be."

"We are fighting against Islamism, not Islam. Islamism is the will to impose Shariah for all as civil, political and religious law. … In reality, it's asking French people to increasingly submit themselves to the Muslim religion. That goes totally against the secular principles of the French republic."

"The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation."

"Empirical laws ... have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true."

"For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land."

"Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody."

"Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth."

"Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce."

"Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints."

"The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite."

"Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose."

"When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name."

"The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively."

"It is a known fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy."

"Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory."

"The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted."

"History is a graveyard of aristocracies."

"Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots."

"I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to communism is currently still very relevant."

"Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century."

"[On Mussolini as the greatest political leader of the century] The answer is in the things I've done in the last years. I don't think the same anymore, I would be schyzophrenic."

"The accession of Turkey [in the European Union] would be a sign of the full compatibility of Islam with democracy."

"Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. (...) One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. (...) The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. (...) We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms."

"I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president."

"Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot."