Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Oswald Mosley

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet was a British politician who rose to fame in the 1920s as a Member of Parliament and later in the 1930s, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, turned to fascism and became the founder and leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF).

British - Politician | November 16, 1896 - December 3, 1980

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Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

Oswald Mosley

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

Oswald Mosley

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind.

Oswald Mosley

Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

Oswald Mosley

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

Oswald Mosley

Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.

Oswald Mosley

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

Oswald Mosley

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

Oswald Mosley

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

Oswald Mosley

Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.

Oswald Mosley

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

Oswald Mosley

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Oswald Mosley

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