Top 100 Benito Quotes
#1. I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
#2. 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.
#3. 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.
#4. 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.
#5. Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
#6. A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!
#7. In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State.
#8. Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.
#9. power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini's grasp like joy from a young widowed heart. The
#10. It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
#11. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
#12. War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
#13. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
#14. Let us have a dagger between our teeth,a bomb in our hand,and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
#15. Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
#16. 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.
#17. The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
#18. Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
#19. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
#20. Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
#21. 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.
#22. It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
#23. 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.
#24. Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
#25. Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
#26. The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state
#27. The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
#28. War is the normal state of the people.
#29. The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
#30. If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
#31. Respect for the rights of others means peace.
#32. Fascism is a religious concept.
#33. My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
#34. Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
#35. The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.
#36. The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
#37. Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.
#38. Fascism is not an article for export.
#39. The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)
#40. Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
#41. Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
#42. The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!
#43. 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.
#44. Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power
#45. 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.
#46. You're scared now, I can smell it ...
Benito Ramirez
#47. 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.
#48. Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
#49. 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.
#50. 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.
#51. The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
#52. Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.
#53. At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
#54. As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
#55. One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
#56. Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
#57. Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today ... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
#58. 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
#59. Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
#60. Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose ... mine!
#61. The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
#62. We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty
#63. We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
#64. The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
#65. Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.
#66. For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes
#67. You know when you bring your voice to different voiceover things like video games and cartoons, and I do tons of stuff like that in voiceovers and whatnot, it's very fun and freeing.
#68. There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
#69. 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.
#70. People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin ... Today's youth are moved by other slogans ... Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
#71. May you never feel the weight of your emotional baggage.
#72. 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.
#73. Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.
#74. It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
#75. I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler,
#76. I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
#77. The working people are bound to their native shoes.
#78. 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.
#79. You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
#80. 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.
#81. [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.
#82. The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.
#83. 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.
#84. 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.
#85. We must give Italians a sense of race.
#86. The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
#87. 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.
#88. 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!
#89. The fascist state is the corporate state.
#90. Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
#91. Inactivity is death.
#92. 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.
#93. I am not a collector of deserts!
#94. It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
#95. 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.
#96. Sometimes life isn't that easy, Benito." "And sometimes, it isn't that hard.
#97. The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
#98. We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
#99. Liberty is a duty, not a right.
#100. 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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