The Doctrine of Fascism

"The man of fascism is a person who is the nation and the homeland, the moral law that binds people and generations together in a tradition and mission and suppresses the instinct of life, which is enclosed in the short circle of pleasure, in order to establish a superior life in duty.  Free from the limitations of time and space: a life in which, through self-negation, the sacrifice of one's own interests, death itself, one realizes that purely spiritual existence in which one's value as a human being lies.  »

Giovanni Gentile, The Doctrine of Fascism