Top 100 Quotes About Mussolini: Famous Quotes & Sayings 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. Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

Silvio Berlusconi

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini's grasp like joy from a young widowed heart. The

Mark T. Sullivan

#10. 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

#11. The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,

Guido Calabresi

#12. Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

Silvio Berlusconi

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. (Hitler responded by calling Mussolini's movement "Kosher fascism.")

Tom Reiss

#17. 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

#18. Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

#19. 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

#20. Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

Gianfranco Fini

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

Benito Mussolini

#25. [Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

Joseph Goebbels

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Mussolini and his lover were brought back to Milan and hung upside-down like fowls.

Catherine McNamara

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. By July we had strawberries, red currants, raspberries, veal, dill, baby turnips, marrow. Mussolini resigned, and Italy capitulated. Roses could be had.

Elise Blackwell

#35. 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

#36. I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

David Low

#37. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.

Lin Yutang

#38. I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

Georges Simenon

#39. Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.

Otto Skorzeny

#40. 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

#41. Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. 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

#43. Maura (fucking witch ass bitch Mussolini Al Qaeda darth vader non-entity)

John Green

#44. Joe Lelyveld told me just now that Gandhi and Mussolini
Actually met. What an extraordinary thought.

Frederick Seidel

#45. Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler 's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

Silvio Berlusconi

#46. She said she remembered when Republicans compared President Roosevelt to Hitler and to Stalin and to Mussolini. She said she used to see people wearing I HATE ELEANOR buttons walk past her on the sidewalk and she wanted to spit, she wanted to kill them.

Amy Bloom

#47. I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#48. And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

Alan Furst

#49. If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.
(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)

Winston S. Churchill

#50. What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.

Leonard Read

#51. 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

#52. I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#53. Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

Galeazzo Ciano

#54. 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

#55. So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

John O'Hara

#56. eclipsed and forgotten by Mussolini's brief but disastrous alliance with Hitler.

Tom Reiss

#57. There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#58. The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.

Galeazzo Ciano

#59. Wars stopped slavery in America and liberated Europe and put an end to Japanese imperialism and killed Hitler and Mussolini and Pol Pot and Che Guevara and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. That's why we have them.

David NMI Stone

#60. We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.

William Joyce

#61. One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.

Bernard Brodie

#62. Hitler and Mussolini even went so far as to persecute Esperanto speakers.

Bill Bryson

#63. Yew? Not roight in the 'ead? Jus' let me tell yew somefink yew cockeyed idiot. Oi moight call yew daft sometimes, but that don't mean yew're crazy. If'n yew're not roight in the head, then Oi'm Mussolini's fairy godmother.

Peter St. John

#64. Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

John Ralston Saul

#65. Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

Mel Brooks

#66. His poor-man's Ionesconian exchanges with Jude suddenly dissolved when he needed Jude to do his calculus homework, at which point Ionesco abruptly transformed into Mussolini,

Hanya Yanagihara

#67. Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

A.J.P. Taylor

#68. What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922]

Vladimir Lenin

#69. A gigantic crowd of one million persons was gathered on the Maifeld to hear the two fascist dictators speak their pieces. Mussolini, orating in German, was carried away by the deafening applause - and by Hitler's flattering words.

William L. Shirer

#70. I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini 2;' I'd like to touch Meryl Streep - which would involve being with her in some exotic location. I have lots of fantastical dreams.

Miranda Hart

#71. No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.

Jim Caviezel

#72. In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them.

Ravi Zacharias

#73. We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.

Marcus Garvey

#74. Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.

Marcus Garvey

#75. Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism.

Harun Yahya

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Benito Mussolini

#80. A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

Benito Mussolini

#81. It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

Benito Mussolini

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Benito Mussolini

#85. Let us have a dagger between our teeth,a bomb in our hand,and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Benito Mussolini

#86. Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

Benito Mussolini

#87. 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

#88. The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

Benito Mussolini

#89. 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

#90. Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

Benito Mussolini

#91. 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