JOSE ANTONIO PRIMO DE RIVERA

(José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella)

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Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith.

Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.

Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

Fire—without hatred.

Philosophically, Rivera was a pacifist, but when in the Spanish Civil War he hfelt he had no other recourse but to protect his people from the onslaught of the German and Italian supported Fascists. Civilian populations were deliberately bombed from the air. However, when he had to give the order to fire he added this philosophical/religious wrinkle.

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Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

Born: April 24, 1903
Died: November 20, 1936
Nationality:
Profession: Lawyer, Politician

Biography

José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella, often referred to simply as José Antonio, was a Spanish politician who founded the fascist Falange Española ("Spanish Phalanx"), later Falange Española de las JONS.