The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
BENITO MUSSOLINII’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
BENITO MUSSOLINIThirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
BENITO MUSSOLINIState 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIRace? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
BENITO MUSSOLINIAs regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOne moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe must give Italians a sense of race.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFor the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe truth is that men are tired of liberty.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
BENITO MUSSOLINI