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[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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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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.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
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The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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Life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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I 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.
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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[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.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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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.
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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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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.
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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.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
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I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
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Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
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