“There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.”

If 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!

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

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.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Yes, 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.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

Race? 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….

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.

Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos.

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn’t matter much. But people want to label everything… So I guess I seem indifferent in that way.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.

There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam.

This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.

The distinction between right and wrong (“la distinction du bien et du mal”, Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition.