Top 100 Quotes About Mussolini
#1. In other words, "free markets" ideology, with its libertarian idealism, has in fact produced Mussolini-style corporatism. And until we learn to call the resulting looting by its proper name, it is certain to continue.
Yves Smith
#2. Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said the leader of the Futurists, Filippo Marinetti, an artist hailed by Mussolini as the John the Baptist of Fascism.17
Leonard Peikoff
#3. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#4. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#5. Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.
Silvio Berlusconi
#6. 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
#7. I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#8. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#9. The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.
E.L. Doctorow
#10. Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Anonymous
#12. A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!
Benito Mussolini
#13. 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.
Smedley D. Butler
#14. power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini's grasp like joy from a young widowed heart. The
Mark T. Sullivan
#15. The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.
Bill Alexander
#16. It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
Benito Mussolini
#17. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
Benito Mussolini
#18. War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Benito Mussolini
#19. The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,
Guido Calabresi
#20. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
Benito Mussolini
#21. Let us have a dagger between our teeth,a bomb in our hand,and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
Benito Mussolini
#22. Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.
Silvio Berlusconi
#23. If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
A. N. Wilson
#24. Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
Benito Mussolini
#25. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#26. The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
Benito Mussolini
#27. My toaster could have a soul,and the walnut grove to the east of my house could be just a bunch of trees or could be made from the atoms of Elvis or Mussolini.Why not?
A.S. King
#28. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#29. Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
Benito Mussolini
#30. In 1938 ... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.
Laura Hillenbrand
#31. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#32. It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
Benito Mussolini
#33. (Hitler responded by calling Mussolini's movement "Kosher fascism.")
Tom Reiss
#34. Government itself, which is the most unnatural and necessary of social mechanisms, has usually required the support of piety and the priest, as clever heretics like Napoleon and Mussolini soon discovered; and hence a tendency to theocracy is incidental to all constitutions.
Will Durant
#35. Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?
Rick Riordan
#36. That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge. That serves to explain in part the necessity that women so often are to men.
Virginia Woolf
#37. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#38. Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.
Gianfranco Fini
#40. We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Robert Byrd
#41. Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
Benito Mussolini
#42. The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state
Benito Mussolini
#43. The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Benito Mussolini
#46. If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
Benito Mussolini
#48. Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
Benito Mussolini
#49. The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Benito Mussolini
#50. I never want to see umbrellas around me," he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.
David I. Kertzer
#51. Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.
Benito Mussolini
#52. I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.
Ugo Cavallero
#54. The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)
Benito Mussolini
#55. Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
Benito Mussolini
#57. The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!
Benito Mussolini
#58. [Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.
Joseph Goebbels
#59. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#60. Tremendous pride was exhibited in fascism, as everyone knows who has seen the pictures of the strutting Mussolini and psychopathic Hitler; but fascism is a development in people who are empty, anxious and despairing, and therefore seize on megalomaniac promises.
Rollo May
#61. Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power
Benito Mussolini
#62. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#63. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#65. When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.
Beck
#66. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#67. We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
John T. Flynn
#68. It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#69. Mussolini and his lover were brought back to Milan and hung upside-down like fowls.
Catherine McNamara
#70. American Progressivism - the moralistic social crusade from which modern liberals proudly claim descent - is in some respects the major source of the fascist ideas applied in Europe by Mussolini and Hitler.
Jonah Goldberg
#71. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#73. Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.
Ronald Reagan
#74. Wonder whether Mussolini's mother spanked him too much or too little
you never know, these psychological days. Can distinctly remember spanking Peter, but it doesn't seem to have warped him much, so psychologists very likely all wrong.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#75. Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.
Benito Mussolini
#76. By July we had strawberries, red currants, raspberries, veal, dill, baby turnips, marrow. Mussolini resigned, and Italy capitulated. Roses could be had.
Elise Blackwell
#77. At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
Benito Mussolini
#78. As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
Benito Mussolini
#79. One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
Benito Mussolini
#80. There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.
Anthony Eden
#81. Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
Benito Mussolini
#82. 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.
Benito Mussolini
#83. 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
Benito Mussolini
#84. I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.
David Low
#86. Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose ... mine!
Benito Mussolini
#87. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
Lin Yutang
#88. The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
Benito Mussolini
#89. I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
Georges Simenon
#91. We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini
#93. Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.
Otto Skorzeny
#94. I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini].
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#95. For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes
Benito Mussolini
#96. Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin
every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands ...
Charlton Heston
#98. Maura (fucking witch ass bitch Mussolini Al Qaeda darth vader non-entity)
John Green
#99. There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
Benito Mussolini
#100. 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.
Benito Mussolini
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