War is the normal state of the people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWar is the normal state of the people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOn the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
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 MUSSOLINIIt is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOur 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 MUSSOLINIThere is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
BENITO MUSSOLINIA century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBlood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
BENITO MUSSOLINII owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOne moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINI[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.
BENITO MUSSOLINILet us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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 MUSSOLINIThe truth is that men are tired of liberty.
BENITO MUSSOLINI