Duce Quotes

#1. The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.

Rodolfo Graziani

#2. When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the Duce had not been so sure about the invincibility of the Germans, and he told us that he had sought to persuade Hitler not to act.

Pietro Badoglio

#3. Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

Sean O'Casey

#4. I was just past forty, that age when you wake up in the morning and feel something thickening inside and only people too old to matter refer to you as a young man anymore. (The Last Days of Il Duce)

Dominic Stansberry

#5. Mussolini's mistress, a leading Fascist intellectual and theorist of the movement, was openly Jewish. Perhaps less well known is that the Israeli Navy was born out of a 1930s Fascist training program, and the Duce even endowed a Fascist chair at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Tom Reiss

#6. most of its existence, Mussolini's regime had not been anti-Semitic, and early on, the Duce had explicitly criticized Hitler's racism - probably in part because Nazism did not include modern Italians in its pantheon of Aryan supermen.

Tom Reiss

#7. Italy being a traitor?" His voice grated. "The Duce - he was a clown; we all know that.

Philip K. Dick

#8. What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes?
p. 6, Double Duce

Aaron Cometbus

#9. I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.

Ugo Cavallero

#10. when the public allows itself to be fooled by a smooth-talking wannabe dictator, "what you get in the end," Alice insisted, "is your Fuehrer, your Duce, your Rex."51

Marc Peyser

#11. On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

Annie Dillard

#12. We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

Gillian Duce

#13. I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

Jaime Pressly

#14. Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

Bill Vaughan

#15. Freedom found me the day I realized I was not bound to witchcraft. The FATHER was waiting, He was scanning the horizon for the day I would realize I could come home. And He ran to welcome me into His loving arms.

Kristine McGuire

#16. One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.

Gillian Duce

#17. Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

Seth Godin

#18. He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#19. Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#20. The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

Paul Krugman

#21. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy

Tim O'Shea

#22. I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.

Gillian Duce

#23. To live with regret is to deny one's life of living.

Gillian Duce

#24. It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

Gillian Duce

#25. Each moment is just that... a moment. Whether good or bad it will pass to the next. Forward to the next and create a wonderful life.

Gillian Duce

#26. Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.

K.d. Lang

#27. It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.

James Elkins

#28. Exist with me. We'd do so beautifully.

Alaska Gold

#29. Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.

Gillian Duce

#30. No one said parenting was easy,but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.

Gillian Duce

#31. A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others.

Gillian Duce

#32. You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

John Steinbeck

#33. How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.

Gillian Duce

#34. All dreams are realities waiting for us to believe in them.

Gillian Duce

#35. Life is only as colorful as the paintbox you choose to paint it with.

Gillian Duce

#36. If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.

John Assaraf