I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
BENITO MUSSOLINII want to make my own life a masterpiece.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
BENITO MUSSOLINISilence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWar is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWhat is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
BENITO MUSSOLINIYes, 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 MUSSOLINIFascism 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf 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!
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBelieve, obey, fight.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe 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 MUSSOLINIPeace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
BENITO MUSSOLINI