Top 100 Benito Mussolini Quotes
#1. Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
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#2. You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always at the window because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years.
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#3. Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
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#5. A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!
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#6. War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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#7. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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#8. Let us have a dagger between our teeth,a bomb in our hand,and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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#9. Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
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#10. Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
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#11. The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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#12. Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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#13. The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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#14. It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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#15. This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
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#17. Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
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#18. The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state
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#19. The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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#23. Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
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#24. The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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#25. Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.
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#27. The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)
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#29. The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!
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#30. If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
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#31. Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power
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#32. Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
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#33. State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
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#35. We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.
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#36. Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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#38. Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.
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#39. At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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#40. As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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#41. One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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#42. Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
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#43. I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
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#45. Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose ... mine!
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#47. We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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#49. For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes
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#50. There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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#51. Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.
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#52. Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
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#53. It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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#54. I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler,
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#56. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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#57. Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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#58. [The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
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#59. The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.
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#60. The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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#61. It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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#64. For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
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#65. If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
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#67. Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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#69. War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
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#71. It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
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#72. If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.
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#73. The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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#75. Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.
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#76. Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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#78. I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.
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#79. If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.
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#80. Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.
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#81. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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#82. In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.
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#83. The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
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#84. What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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#85. The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.
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#86. We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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#88. State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
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#89. For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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#90. I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
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#91. It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.
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#92. Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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#93. We become strongest, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look for moral gudance
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#94. All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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#95. Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
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#96. The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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#98. It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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#99. Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.
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#100. I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
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