People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
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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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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Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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For 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.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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….
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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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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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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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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 state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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.
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The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
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I’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
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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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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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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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