“Throughout most of his life, and long b…
“Throughout most of his life, and long before Fascism was ever heard of, he had had the outlook of those who reach Fascism by the aristocratic route. He is a great hater of democracy, of the modern world, science, machinery, the concept of progress—above all, of the idea of human equality.”
– George Orwell on W. B. Yeats
“In Yeats’s work, there is this underlying notion of a race as a ‘Unity of Being’, as having a collective memory, or collective bank of originary symbols, images or myths…The idea of the racial community promises to circumvent the potential anomie of modern social relations”
– John Brannigan
“Race, which has for its flower the family and the individual, is wiser than Government, and it is the source of all initiative”
– W. B. Yeats