Savitri Devi > Quotes

“A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.”
― Savitri Devi

“I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. I worship Life; the Sun, Sustainer of life. I believe in the Law of everlasting struggle, which is the law of life, and in the duty of the best specimens of our race — the natural élite of mankind — to rule the earth, and evolve out of themselves a caste of supermen, a people 'like unto the Gods'.”
― Savitri Devi, Pilgrimage

“Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.

And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.”
― Savitri Devi

“Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of antiquity -- they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other gods on earth -- the glorious beginning of the slow, downward unfurling of history, whatever name it be given -- far behind them in the past.”
― Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun

“Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.
Love all living things whose humble task is not opposed in any way to yours, to ours: men with simple hearts, honest, without vanity and malice, and all the animals, because they are beautiful, without exception and without exception indifferent to whatever "idea" there may be. Love them, and you will see the eternal in the glance of their eyes of jet, amber, or emerald. Love also the trees, the plants, the water that runs though the meadow and on to the sea without knowing where it goes; love the mountain, the desert, the forest, the immense sky, full of light or full of clouds; because all these exceed man and reveal the eternal to you.”
― Savitri Devi

“If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.”
― Savitri Devi

“Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history -- the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of "heathens," and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere -- modern man is filled with pride in the "progress" accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.”
― Savitri Devi

“To us, the high-resounding “isms” to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success; if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.”
― Savitri Devi

“Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: "It's Beauty.”
― Savitri Devi

“If there is a single fact which anyone who seriously studies the history of Christianity cannot help but be struck by, it is the almost complete absence of documents regarding the man whose name this great international religion bears -- Jesus Christ. We know of him only what is told to us in the New Testament gospels, that is, practically nothing.”
― Savitri Devi

“What, then, remains to be done by those who live now, devoted body and soul to our ideal of visible (and invisible) perfection on all planes? On a worldwide scale, or even national, absolutely nothing. It is too late. The “twenty-fifth hour” has sounded for too long a time.

On the individual scale, or at least “restricted,” there remains to preserve, insofar as it is still possible, the beauty of the world: human, animal, vegetable, inanimate; all beauty; to obstinately and efficiently preserve élite minorities; dedicatedly to defend them at all costs—all noble minorities, whether they be those of the Aryans of Europe, Asia, or America, conscious of the excellence of their common race; or of those splendid large felines threatened by extinction; or of those noble trees threatened by the atrocity of being uprooted by bulldozers in order to install, on their nourishing soil, invading multitudes of mammals with two legs, less beautiful and less innocent than they. It remains to take care and resist; and to aid all beautiful minorities attacked by the agents of chaos; to resist, even if that should delay only a few decades the disappearance of the last aristocrats among men, animals, or trees. There is nothing else that one can do, if not, perhaps, to curse in one’s heart, day and night, today’s humanity (apart from very rare exceptions), and to work with all one’s efforts for its destruction.”
― Savitri Devi

“I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.”
― Savitri Devi

“We should follow the spirit of the Fhurer in every way. And one thing that would’ve made the Fhurer indignant, if he had known it, is that... mass massacre of seals on the coast of Canada... I’ve seen pictures of it. And it’s more than enough for me. Poor baby seals, so beautiful, such trusting creatures that you can tame them if you like. Just killed. And how killed? A knock on the head, and their skin pulled off while they’re... practically alive. Their skins stolen from them... Trusting creatures that do no harm to anybody... I can see their corpses skinned, lying on the snow in pools of blood. Take away that sight. That’s an awful thing. And what’s even more awful than that, is to think that some Aryan men do it for two and a half dollars each. How can they do it? They are disgracing their race. Every Aryan who does something horrid disgraces his race. Disgraces his children first.”
― Savitri Devi, Son of the Sun: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt

“Pity it's not sixteen million. If it were sixteen million, it would be very good. The question would have been solved already long ago. Pity it wasn't twenty-six million.”
― Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews

“I believe that cowardice is the ugliest vice on earth. You cannot be cruel unless you are a coward. Fighting is not bad, fighting honestly. But fighting in a sneaking way, and fighting and doing cruelties, that’s cowardice... It’s the most despicable vice I can imagine. I’d much rather have some other vices... Laziness is not good, but it’s better than that. All the other vices are better than that. That’s the father of vices. Lying is a mark of cowardice. If you tell lies, it means you don’t want to face the consequences of what you have done or what you believe. So you’d rather lie. You are not a liar if you are not a coward. You have to be a coward to have all the vices. You have to be a coward.”
― Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews

“In fact, higher animals are racialist and lower animals too. They won’t mate with anyone except creatures of their own race. Certain spiders will go miles and miles to get to the female spider of the same kind as himself. They have that instinct. The highest of the beings on Earth have that instinct and the lowest. And the intermediate ones haven’t got it. An average dog, especially what they call in India a pariah dog, will mate with any bitch. Spiders don’t. Insects don’t. Plants don’t. Minerals don’t. There are strict laws of combinations between minerals in chemistry. And higher human beings don’t. The intermediate human being is just like the dog: mates with anybody. We want to be the highest. National Socialism is for teaching the Aryans to become real Aryans, that is to say, the top of the race and to be able to guide others, to bring the whole race up. We don’t want any kind of people in our Aryan race who behave like dogs, like pariah dogs.”
― Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews

“We are only against people who are harmful. And we don’t hate them. There’s no need of hating them. We don’t hate bugs. We fight them. We don’t hate lice. We fight them. They’re harmful. They bite us... they infect us with disease. Mosquitoes: the same thing... You have to do something to make them go away, at least to get rid of them. It’s the same thing with races that do harm to ours. We defend ourselves, and that’s all... But in this Yuga, this Dark Age nearing its end, you get more and more power in the hands of those people. That’s natural. And there will be a racial struggle somewhere. I can see it coming. I can see it coming in the USA. I wouldn’t be at all astonished if one day, not tomorrow, perhaps not in fifty years, but perhaps later on, the USA had a National Socialist government, made of Americans, after a terrific fight with the other races... I think America will precede Europe in that way, not for any other reason but because in America the pressure of the dark races is much more powerful.”
― Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews

“Now how did he [Mukherji] marry me? Well, he married me for me not to be interned at the beginning of the war. If he had not married me, I would’ve been in a concentration camp. All people who were known to be against the British, known to have subversive ideas, were put into camps immediately after the war began... And we married, and we went, he to his house and I to my house. In the end, after several months, we took a flat: four rooms, two for me and two for him. And we had no kind of marital life at all. We were ideological co-fighters, friends, and that’s all. We used to meet now and then to discuss things, to read books together, and that was all... we decided not to have any family at all, and not to have any family at all means no intimacy at all. If you don’t want a family, you have no business having anything else but Platonic relations with your fellow beings. Ceasing Platonic relations is only when you want a family. We kept up to it. We kept up to it to the very end. Because we believe in that.”
― Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews

“Our morality is based, as our religion, upon the conception of the unity of all life (within astounding diversity and G0d-ordained hierarchy) and upon the birthright of every healthy creature to enjoy, to the uttermost of its capacity, throughout its full span of years, the sight of daylight which is beautiful”
― Savitri Devi, The Impeachment of Man

“Our morality is based, as our religion, upon the conception of the unity of all life (within astounding diversity and God-ordained hierarchy) and upon the birthright of every healthy creature to enjoy, to the uttermost of its capacity, throughout its full span of years, the sight of daylight which is beautiful”
― Savitri Devi, The Impeachment of Man

“I had a letter from a Japanese teacher in Nara, and he told me point blank, “We Japanese are all National Socialists in our own way. We are not Aryan racialists because we are not Aryans, of course. But we believe in blood and soil. What’s more, this can be said of any race in the world, any conscious race.” And that’s why if to be a religion, the basic principles of the doctrine have to be universal, I can say National Socialism is a religion.”
― Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews

“We should follow the spirit of the Fuhrer in every way. And one thing that would’ve made the Fuhrer indignant, if he had known it, is that... mass massacre of seals on the coast of Canada... I’ve seen pictures of it. And it’s more than enough for me. Poor baby seals, so beautiful, such trusting creatures that you can tame them if you like. Just killed. And how killed? A knock on the head, and their skin pulled off while they’re... practically alive. Their skins stolen from them... Trusting creatures that do no harm to anybody... I can see their corpses skinned, lying on the snow in pools of blood. Take away that sight. That’s an awful thing. And what’s even more awful than that, is to think that some Aryan men do it for two and a half dollars each. How can they do it? They are disgracing their race. Every Aryan who does something horrid disgraces his race. Disgraces his children first.”
― Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews

“He read the leaflet... It was 2:00 in the morning and very cold. He came out and put his two hands on my shoulders and said, “Who wrote that?” I said, “I.” “You wrote that? But you are not a German.” I said, “No, but I’m an Aryan still. Without being German I’m still an Aryan, and I owe allegiance to Germany as the country that tried to save the race from decay and all the consequences of Judeo-democratic domination.”
― Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews