The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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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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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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On 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.
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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A 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.
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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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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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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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If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. … They were elements of disorder and subversion.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Fascism 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.
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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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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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