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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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We 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.
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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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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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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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Thirty 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.
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Thus 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.
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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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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
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